{"id":2022816,"date":"2023-09-05T21:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-integrity-win-arizona-court-rules-against-states-unlawful-signature-matching-process\/"},"modified":"2023-09-05T21:40:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T01:40:03","slug":"election-integrity-win-arizona-court-rules-against-states-unlawful-signature-matching-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-integrity-win-arizona-court-rules-against-states-unlawful-signature-matching-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona court rules against state&#8217;s &#8216;illegal signature matching process&#8217;, ensuring election integrity."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felection-integrity-win-arizona-court-rules-against-states-unlawful-signature-matching-process%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2022816&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Fight for\u200b Election Integrity: Arizona \u2062Court Rules Against Unlawful Signature Matching Process<\/h2>\n<p>The public interest group Restoring Integrity and\u200c Trust in Elections (RITE) is celebrating a significant\u200b victory for\u2064 election integrity following\u2064 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-pro-life-activists-found-guilty-over-protest-in-washington-abortion-clinic\/\" title=\"5 Pro-Life Activists Convicted for Protest at Washington Abortion Clinic\">recent court\u200c ruling<\/a> in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>In March, RITE filed a lawsuit against Democratic Arizona Secretary of State <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democrat-secretary-state-explains-trump-cant-barred-ballot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adrian Fontes<\/a>, arguing that his office&#8217;s \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/azsos.gov\/elections\/about-elections\/elections-procedures-manual\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elections Procedures Manual<\/a> \u2063violated \u200dthe law regarding the mail-in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-integrity-win-arizona-court-rules-against-states-unlawful-signature-matching-process\/\" title=\"Arizona court rules against state's 'illegal signature matching process', ensuring election integrity.\">ballot\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-kraken-released-attorney-sidney-powell-files-104-page-bombshell-complaint-of-massive-fraud-in-georgia-election-update-michigan-too\/\" title=\"BREAKING: KRAKEN RELEASED! Attorney Sidney Powell Files 104 Page BOMBSHELL COMPLAINT of Massive Fraud in Georgia Election - Update: Michigan too\">signature verification<\/a> process<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/college-scales-back-bias-response-teams-after-legal-challenge\/\" title=\"College Scales Back \u2018Bias Response\u2019 Teams After Legal Challenge\">group claimed<\/a>\u2063 that Fontes\u2062 instructed county recorders to use a broader range of comparison signatures, which \u2064resulted in the counting of ballots\u200c with signatures that\u200c did not match anything \u2064in the \u2063voter&#8217;s registration record. RITE argued that this was a clear violation of state law.<\/p>\n<p>In a \u2064Friday ruling, Yavapai County Superior Court Judge John Napper rejected \u2064a motion to dismiss the case filed by Fontes and\u2064 the group Mi Familia Vota. The court agreed with RITE&#8217;s\u2062 conclusion that the law requires \u200cthe recorder to review \u200cthe voter&#8217;s registration card and not other documents with the voter&#8217;s\u200d signature.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Lyons, president \u2063and CEO of \u2063RITE, \u200cexpressed his satisfaction \u200cwith\u200d the court&#8217;s ruling, stating, &#8220;RITE will build \u200con this victory\u2063 to continue\u200d to fight in \u200dcourt for elections that are administered\u200d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kurt-schlichter-weak-cons-and-libs-can-clutch-their-pearls-and-seethe\/\" title=\"Kurt Schlichter: Weak Cons and Libs Can Clutch Their Pearls and Seethe\">democratically enacted laws<\/a>,\u2064 not illegal\u200b partisan commands.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kari\u200d Lake, the 2022 \u2063Republican nominee for governor, is\u200b also involved in a lawsuit against Fontes and Maricopa County officials regarding\u2062 the signature verification \u200bprocess used\u200b in November&#8217;s election. An expert witness for Lake testified that approximately \u206270,000 mail-in ballots were reviewed for signature matches in less than two seconds, raising\u2064 concerns\u2062 about\u200b the accuracy of the process.<\/p>\n<p>The statute \u2064at issue specifies that election officials should compare the signatures on\u200d the ballot envelope with the signature on the elector&#8217;s registration record. If there is \u2064a mismatch, the\u200d county is required to \u2062reach out\u2062 to the voter and confirm their identity.<\/p>\n<p>While a \u200dMaricopa County judge ruled against Lake, stating that the law\u2062 does \u200bnot specify a time\u2064 limit for signature verification, Lake has appealed the case to the Arizona Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<p>This\u2064 ruling is a significant\u2064 step towards\u200c securing elections that Arizonans can trust and\u2063 ensuring that the\u2064 state&#8217;s\u2063 election processes comply with the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections claimed a significant victory for election integrity after an Arizona court ruling. The public interest group had sued Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, alleging that his office&#8217;s Elections Procedures Manual violated mail-in ballot signature verification laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":2022817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2022816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2022816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}