I don't side with anyone. I am not a fan of any political group because I think they are all out fior themselves more than the citizens. But you make it sound like democrats are the only ones using envelope sorters and again this is some master conspiracy by democrats. You need to check your factsand truly educate yourself. Everything is ultimately approved or disapproved by a real person. (1) It does not automatically approve or disapprove it flags the signature as a probable match and lets a person look at it to accept that match or disapprove that match. The other ones that you call disapprove are still looked at by a human to approve or disapprove so every signature is viewed by a person. And the ones disapproved by the first people still go through another entire review process by another group a second chance if you will. The status that was decided on by the the humans not the machine is used to update the voter registration at some point but nothing is networked to Score.

If it was a bunch of self -serving politicians from a different party that would be ok?? The machine just sorts the envelopes to speed up processing. Washington state, Oregon state and other places all over the country some of which are all mail in states have used these machines for years. If there was some grand conspiracy being committed by this type of equipment it would have come out by now. Some people are stuck in the past and think that hand counts and paper ledgers are the only way to do things. Beware of that evil technology that actually saves money and is more accurate then humans.

People need to educate themselves on the process that is in place. Everyone wants a 100% perfect system. Nothing is perfect.

Signature Verification and Missing Signatures
An election judge must compare the signature on the return envelope of each mail-in ballot with a copy of the elector’s signature on file in SCORE.
If a judge determines that a signature does not match, 2 other judges, each from different political parties, must look at the signature. The ballot is counted if at least one of the judges believes the signatures match.
If neither judge believes the signatures match, the county must send a letter to the elector within 3 days of receiving the ballot but no later than 2 days after the election. The letter must advise the elector that in order for the ballot to count, the elector must complete an affidavit and send in a copy of ID no later than 8 days after the election.

What is the logic for getting rid of mail ballots? How is a paper mail ballot different from a paper ballot voted on at a pooling place.