Campaign Legal Center: Court Stops North Dakota From Rejecting Ballots Based on Error-Prone Signature Match System
June 04, 2020
June 04, 2020
WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The Campaign Legal Center issued the following news release:
A federal court temporarily suspended North Dakota's enforcement of a law that resulted in the rejection of mail-in ballots using an error-prone signature match process, in which election workers compare the signature on voters' absentee ballot application to the one on their return envelope. The opinion called North Dakota's system "outright disenfranchisement" of qualified voters, chiding . . .
A federal court temporarily suspended North Dakota's enforcement of a law that resulted in the rejection of mail-in ballots using an error-prone signature match process, in which election workers compare the signature on voters' absentee ballot application to the one on their return envelope. The opinion called North Dakota's system "outright disenfranchisement" of qualified voters, chiding . . .