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As a result, the Republican Party is asking the court to enjoin the reporting of ballots cured by this method. That would mean invalidating 2,092 ballot signature affidavits that were cured ...
“Every vote does count,” said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation. “People say it all the time, but you can actually see it with ballot curing in these close contests.”
Washington State Republicans wants a judge to invalidate over 2,000 cured ballots to knock Dave Upthegrove, a Democrat, out of the race for DNR chief.
Arizona law says people who vote by mail should receive notice of problems with their ballots, such as a signature that doesn’t match the one on file, and get a chance to correct it in a process known as “curing.” The groups' petition noted that as of Friday evening more than 250,000 mail-in ballots had not yet been verified by signature.
Ballot curing: State law requires election officials to make a reasonable effort to alert voters when ballot signatures cannot be verified. Voters have until 5 p.m. on the fifth day after Election ...
“The Court has no information to establish in fact that any such individuals did not have the benefit of ‘reasonable efforts’ to cure their ballots,” wrote Justice Bill Montgomery, who served as duty judge for the seven-member court. He noted that no responding county requested a time extension.
If a ballot is rejected, most states have a ballot curing process – meaning they will notify the voter, and there is a process for fixing, or curing, the problem.
About two-thirds of states have a "curing" process to notify voters that their ballots weren't counted and allow them to fix the mistake, which can take several days and prolong the vote-counting ...