Documenting Deliberate Sabotage (Voting in AZ)

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9. I was doing election integrity back in the 2000's elections ...

what we found:
1) When you vote at the polls with a regular ballot (not provisional), 100%
of the ballots were counted. Because if you spoiled your ballot, you could
immediately ask for another ballot.
Note: Does not mean it will be counted correctly, only that it will be counted.
2) When you vote absentee (or by mail), approximately 15% - 20% of the ballots
were not counted for one reason or another. In San Diego, it was 17%.
AND you'll never know if your ballot was uncounted!
Reasons for not counting:
- Forgot to sign the ballot
- Even if you signed it, the person checking the signature could say it didn't match.
- You were registered under a different name, then got married and never registered.
Note: This happened mostly to women who changed their name after marriage, then
changed their signature to match their new name, but not the same as the
registered name.
- Mailed or Received after the election date.
- Your ballot was spoiled so you checked the spoiled box on the envelope, but you never
received your new ballot in time to actually vote.
- Someone decided to check the spoiled box on your envelope along the way, without
your permission. (This would be election fraud, but it can happen if the spoiled box is
on the envelop where anyone can get at it. We pushed to have it placed inside the
envelope. Since I don't use absentee ballots, I don't know if this was accomplished).

For me, I'd rather go to the polls.

Also, one last note, it was rumored that when you applied for an absentee or mail-in ballot,
you would be immediately called for jury duty. Unproven of course, but the only time
I voted absentee, because I would actually be out of town on election day, I received a
jury duty notice within a couple of months. (Unscientific, of course).