Kemp just signed election "reform" bill to include no more signature verification

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Read the bill for yourselves

SB 202, titled "The Election Integrity Act of 2021," expands in-person early voting dates and hours for most counties, and gives counties the ability to adjust the number of polling places and machines per voting location.

The bill also restructures the makeup and authority of the State Election Board, including demoting the secretary of state from the chair of the board to an ex-offico member, with the legislature selecting the Board's chair.

The law gives the board the authority to temporarily suspend county-level election directors and election boards, pending formal reviews of their conduct.

The law also prohibits most uses of mobile voting buses, which were primarily deployed in Fulton County in the Atlanta area in 2020. (A little late, don't you think)

The bill does modify requirements for absentee voting.

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS PART

The bill requires voters to include the # from their govt issued ID, their Drivers License #, or the last 4 of their Social Security # for Absentee ballot requests or on their ballot envelope for their vote to count.SO INSTEAD OF SIGNATURES, THE # WILL BE THE VERIFICATION PROOF. Anyone with this information can provide it as "voter ID".

Here's their justification:

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While signature matching was successful in 2020, some top election officials say that requiring an ID number instead is a far more objective standard than having election officials determine if the voter's signature matches. 

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If there was no problem, why did they change it, and to a less secure system at that? Are they serious?
The law also bans election officials and government authorities from sending unsolicited absentee ballot applications to voters.

HERE'S ANOTHER GEM

The omnibus bill further allows counties to permanently offer ballot drop boxes, which were adopted as an emergency measure in the COVID-19 pandemic.


Other provisions of the bill include: allowing people to serve as poll workers outside their county of residence, requiring officials to report election results and information by 10 pm on election night, requiring ballots to be printed on special security paper (is someone reading watermark conspiracies?), expanded public notice for polling place changes and pre-election voting equipment testing, and updating regulations for poll watchers and challenges to voters' registrations.