Benson had instructed local election clerks a month before the Nov. 3 election to start with a "Presumption" that all signatures on absentee ballots were valid and only reject those that had "Multiple significant and obvious" inconsistencies.
Chief Court of Claims Judge Christopher M. Murray ruled March 9 that the state Legislature did not provide such guidance in its election laws, and therefore Benson needed to promulgate a formal rule - a timely process - before imposing such a requirement.
Murray told election clerks they should disregard Benson's instructions in future elections.
In neighboring Wisconsin, the state Supreme Court handed down a significant ruling in December when the justices concluded that state and local election officials erred when they gave blanket permission allowing voters to declare themselves homebound and skip voter ID requirements in the 2020 elections.
A judge in January approved a consent decree permanently banning the acceptance of ballots without postmarks after Election Day, concluding that instructions from the Virginia Department of Elections to the contrary in 2020 had violated state law.
The Public Interest Legal Foundation, which represented electoral board member Thomas Reed called the ruling "a big win for the Rule of Law." "This consent decree gives Mr. Reed everything he requested - a permanent ban on accepting ballots without postmarks after Election Day and is a loss for the Virginia bureaucrats who said ballots could come in without these protections," PILF President and General Counsel J. Christian Adams said.
The Thomas More Society's Amistad Project on election integrity is pursuing litigation over whether hundreds of millions of dollars donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and routed to local election officials in several battleground states may have unlawfully influenced the election, according to the project's director, Phill Kline.
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Thursday, March 18, 2021
Months after Trump complaints, some courts are finding irregularities in 2020 elections
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