Thread by @joelpollak

The @AP fact check says that @realDonaldTrump is wrong about signature matching in the Georgia consent decree. But the AP article does not link to the consent decree. apnews.com/article/ap-fac… (Never a good sign.) So I decided to check AP's work. The AP's fact-check is wrong. (1/7)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328382287331856384

I found that In 2019, Georgia enacted a law that relaxes the signature matching requirement. It allows an absentee voter whose signature does not match to cast a provisional ballot, then "cure" the defect within a certain period of time, with ID etc. legis.ga.gov/Legislation/20… (2/7)

I found the consent decree on the website of Perkins Coie. It's another win for attorney Marc Elias, the Democrat lawyer who was exposed as having hired Fusion GPS to compile the "Russia dossier." Having tried to influence one election, with 0 consequences, he did it again. (3/7)

The consent decree (demdoc2.perkinscoieblogs.com/wp-content/upl…) creates a new, complicated process that makes it MUCH harder to reject a ballot with a signature that does not match the voter file, and requires the rejecting officials be named. This drastically reduces the chance of rejection. (4/7)

The specific Trump tweet that the @AP fact-checked was one claiming Georgia made it "impossible" to verify signatures.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1327619653020110850

It's not impossible, theoretically, but highly impractical. That was the point. The AP just says "wrong." In fact, the AP is wrong. (5/7)

Why would Georgia Gov. @BrianKempGA have allowed his state to enter into such a decree? Because Democrats had accused him of having stolen the 2018 election (which @staceyabrams did not properly concede) through voter suppression, calling him a racist etc. He needed an out. (6/7)

The @AP says: "There is nothing in the consent decree that prevents Georgia election clerks from scrutinizing signatures." That's misleading. The decree makes checking signatures *practically* impossible. Trump is closer to the truth than the so-called fact-checkers. Again. (7/7)