<And just asked for 500K signatures to do "something". Just like MTG.
<When laws were broke you don't need signatures.
<This is ridiculous.
Thanks for reminding me, filtered shill.
Finchem is looking for petition signatures for the Pima County Canvas
Here's the Gannet Hit piece they were talking about.
muh Qanon
A QAnon conspiracy theory about election fraud is becoming a pro-Trump push for traceable ballots
Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY 20 hrs ago
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One of the right's emerging favorites is traceable ballots, a combination of printed security paper and digital tracking that would allow a person to look up their ballots after being cast.
An "America First" coalition of secretaries of state candidates backed by former President Donald Trump are among those calling for election officials to adopt those traceable, watermarked ballots as a remedy to fraudulent or illegal voting – even in the absence of proof of widespread voter fraud.
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The idea is especially attractive to right-leaning candidates who say it will secure U.S. elections and restore faith in the process as turnout woes plague Republicans, some of whom argue their base is being depressed by the false claims.
But critics warn traceable ballots have their recent roots in online conspiracy theories around an election where the current protections largely worked. Others, including election security advocates who are more sympathetic to the idea, fear it would also violate a person's right to cast a secret ballot, a mainstay of the U.S. democratic system for the last hundred years.
"There is this lie that's still being peddled by many of the supporters of the former president, that the election was stolen, and that's impacting the views of Republicans and conservatives," Trey Grayson, a Republican and former Kentucky secretary of state, told USA TODAY. "And there are people and there are groups that are trying to exploit this."
A PIN for your ballot
Most states allow voters to track their mail-in or absentee ballot similar to a package delivery. That was one thing Democratic and Republican election officials touted to help build confidence in mail-in ballots as COVID-19 forced voting procedural changes last year.
But what deeply conservative candidates aligned with Trump want is different. They are calling for a system that allows individuals to ferret out their individual ballot after it is scanned to verify it was counted correctly.
Rachel Hamm, a conservative candidate for California secretary of state, said she envisions assigning voters a PIN number where they can confirm their ballot was tabulated. She said voters should be able to use that identification to look up how they voted.
Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, a group founded by former Trump adviser Leonard Leo, said his group has also been interested in the idea of individual voters being able to trace their own ballot.
"I certainly understand the impulse of this sort of policy reform," he said, comparing people who wants traceable ballots to people who check up on their Amazon packages. "People want certainty, and they're accustomed to that in the 21st century with so many other things."
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