Another day, another new election ruling

Posted on October 19, 2016

For the third time in a week, a federal judge ruled against the state in an election-related case, this time ordering county supervisors of elections to give early voters a chance to correct “mismatched” signatures should their ballots be flagged.

State statutes allow voters who forget to put a signature on their vote-by-mail ballot to correct their mistake and have their vote counted. Until Sunday’s ruling, however, there was no recourse for those whose signature was considered mismatched (meaning officials could not verify the signature on the ballot was the same as the one on file for that particular voter).

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