Actually, there's some pretty amazing megalithic stonework in Ethiopia.
Moar, but to the chase:
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In Thompson’s order setting up the second election trial, he stated, “Plaintiff will be allowed to present evidence that Maricopa County failed to conduct any level 1 signature verification.” However, the Arizona Supreme Court did not expressly state that when it remanded the case back to Thompson, and the parties in the case have extensively relied on Reyes v. Cuming, an extremely similar case where signatures on the envelopes were not compared to the voter registration list, violating a non-technical statute.
In Reyes, the Arizona Court of Appeals did not state that there must be zero signature verification that took place in order to overturn the election. The court said that where “almost one-third of the ballots cast counted without compliance with A.R.S. section 16-550(A), the trial court abuses its discretion by finding that the Recorder substantially complied with the statute. To rule otherwise would ‘affect the result or at least render it uncertain,’” citing Miller v. Picacho Elementary School District No. 33.
The court concluded, “Miller established that an election contestant need only show that absentee ballots counted in violation of a non-technical statute changed the outcome of the election; actual fraud is not a necessary element. … Therefore, the trial court’s finding that there was no evidence that any ballots were cast by persons other than registered voters is irrelevant.”
https://arizonasuntimes.com/news/kari-lakes-second-election-contest-trial-concludes-no-experts-dispute-274000-ballot-signatures-were-verified-at-a-rate-of-3-seconds-each/ralexander/2023/05/21/
>>18882270 din't 'member the headline:
Kari Lake’s Second Election Contest Trial Concludes, No Experts Dispute 274,000 Ballot Signatures Were ‘Verified’ at a Rate of 3 Seconds Each