(https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/220309%20Third%20Request%20to%20MCRO%20and%20MCBOS%20Letter%20%284%29.pdf)

On March 9th, the Arizona Attorney General’s office sent the Maricopa County Recorder’s office and the Board of Supervisors (BOS) a “THIRD REQUEST FOR RECORDS OR INFORMATION Voter Registration Records, Ballot Affidavit Signature Batching, & Renewed Request.”

This third round added demand for signature records based on Dr Shiva’s two signature verification reviews (https://t.me/LibertyOverwatchChannel/6628):

“The Elections Integrity Unit of the Arizona Attorney General's Office (“EIU”) is in receipt of two pilot studies conducted by Dr Shiva Ayyadurai, MIT PhD that reviewed over 2,000 ballot affidavits of voters who cast ballots in Maricopa County for the 2020 Statewide General Election. In the study, it is alleged that over 250 [11.3%] of those sampled ballot affidavits contained signatures that did not appear to match the voter's signature. Notably, the pilot study compared the ballot affidavit signatures with signatures found on publicly accessible and notarized deeds available through the Maricopa County Recorder Office's (MCRO) website, not against the signatures used by elections officials as contained in the voter's registration records…

The EIU hereby requests copies of the voter registration records of the people listed in the attached confidential exhibit who are purported to have signatures that did not match publicly available records…”

The letter goes on to identify Runbeck as a potential source for Maricopa County signature verification. The AG asks the Recorder and BOS to please provide:

“[Whether] confidence levels are generated at any point by a computerized system, such as Runbeck's “Versus ProTM Automated Signature Verification” system (or any prior branded systems or technology employed for signature verification through Runbeck or any other vendor contracted for signature verification systems), please provide all related technical specifications, including any contracts or agreements between MCRO and Runbeck regarding signature verification, including any agreed-upon specifications regarding the signature matching sensitivity; Emails or other written communications between Runbeck… and any past or current employee, volunteer, or elected official acting on behalf of MCRO that discusses the use of electronic signature validation systems from the period of January 1, 2018, through present…”

Finally, the letter renews the October 2021 “Public Records in the EIU's October 7th Second Request for Information,” which asked for:

“All written procedures, policies, guidelines, and manuals… used by Maricopa County to conduct the 2020 General Election, whether official or unofficial, whether issued or written by Maricopa County or another county, agency, vendor, or third-party, including the original and subsequent updates to those documents…”

The October letter also specifically asks for information related to curing ballots, including, “the document entitled “VR-001 Voters Unable to Make a Mark - Final.pdf references ballot curing procedures designated as policy EV-001. The EIU was unable to find Policy EV-001 within the document set, nor were we able to find any documents purporting to be policies that use that numbering system… In fact, no documents describe policies on how to cure inconsistent or missing signatures, instead, there are technical documents on how to use the signature verification program, scripts for calling individuals whose ballots were identified as having signatures that were inconsistent with the signature on file, and signature verification training materials. But there are no policies that resemble the policy referenced in VR-001, nor any policy number EV-001…”

Maricopa County sent approximately 25,000 (a minuscule 1.3%) of the county’s 1.9M absentee ballots for signature review, a process known as “curing (https://t.me/LibertyOverwatchChannel/6628).”

Sources 📑 AG Third Request Letter (https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/2022-03/220309%20Third%20Request%20to%20MCRO%20and%20MCBOS%20Letter%20%284%29.pdf), AG Second Request Letter (https://azag.gov/sites/default/files/docs/press-releases/records/211007_Second_Request_to_MCBOS_and_MCRO.pdf), AZ AG Office (https://www.azag.gov/media/interest/ago-third-request-mcro-and-mcbos-records-or-information) Hat tip🤠 @Behizy

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