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Ballot curing (ballot cure) is the process of correcting minor errors, typically involving voter identification issues with mail-in or absentee ballots. Ballot curing allows for certain technical mistakes to be fixed, and potentially make a difference in a close election by counting every legal vote.
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.
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 ...
At least 30 states require election officials to notify voters if there is a problem with their mail ballot and give them a chance to fix — or “cure” — it. Some have complained that the timeframe allowed to do that is too short. Nevada, a key presidential battleground, is among the states that mails a ballot to all registered voters.
“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.
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.
Counting ballots, Ouagadougou, 2015. Manual counting, also known as hand-counting, requires a physical ballot that represents voter intent. The physical ballots are taken out of ballot boxes and/or envelopes, read and interpreted; then results are tallied. [3]
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 ...