• March 28, 2024

Program Analyzing Signatures in Kari Lake Case Ranks 10 Percent Match as ‘High-Confidence,’ County Denies – Report

 Program Analyzing Signatures in Kari Lake Case Ranks 10 Percent Match as ‘High-Confidence,’ County Denies – Report

A battle is raging over the way in which Arizona’s Maricopa County verifies that signatures on early ballots are genuine.

The issue is part of the legal battle being waged by Republican Kari Lake, who lost November’s gubernatorial election to Democrat Katie Hobbs. Part of Lake’s legal battle to have the results invalidated revolves around her allegations that a vast gulf exists between the principle of signature verification as outlined in county policies and the actual practices employed in the 2022 election.

Lake said Friday that the county will not allow her team to inspect signatures.

Maricopa County has been illegally outsourcing Signature Verification to a third-party vendor, who uses a threshold of just 10% to qualify signatures as “high-confidence” matches for approval.

This is why they don’t want us comparing signatures.https://t.co/FlBfxS0wKU

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 1, 2023

THE SIGNATURES DON’T MATCH. https://t.co/H5lkFCh1rs

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) April 1, 2023

Amid that debate, a new report from the website Just the News indicates that the technology employed by Maricopa County might not be very effective at catching fraudulent signatures.

The report said Maricopa County uses a service called Verus Pro that is part of the software offered by Runbeck Election Services, which has a contract with the county.

At that point, differences emerged. Maricopa County said signatures are verified using “calling, mailing, texting and emailing the voters.”

The site said it was told by a county representative: “Maricopa County does not use Verus Pro for signature verification.”

However, Just the News said former Arizona Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Wright gave the site a copy of a contract effective last July between Maricopa County and Runbeck.

Signatures sent to Runbeck “are assigned a score based on the verification; signatures with a score of 10 or higher are routed to a high-confidence manual signature verification queue, and signatures with a lower score are routed to a low-confidence signature verification queue,” the contract said.

One catch: That’s 10 on

Source: The Gateway Pundit

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