Federal Judge Rules Signatures Don’t Have to Match Absentee Ballots in South Carolina

Absentee ballot election workers stuff ballot applications at the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections office in Charlotte, N.C., on Sept. 4, 2020. Logan Cyrus/AFP via Getty Images

A federal judge ruled that South Carolina elections officials must not reject any mail-in ballots due to signature mismatch.

The ruling on Oct. 27 by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel, an appointee of President Barack Obama, called on the state to review and reprocess ballots that have mismatched signatures that have been rejected or set aside, according to several local news websites.