Fact Check: Georgia Rejected More Than 2,000 Absentee Ballots Because Of Signature Issues

Georgia counties have to match a voters signature from their voter registration to their absentee ballot application to their ballot envelope.

Emil Moffatt / WABE

Of the more than 1.3 million absentee ballots returned to county elections offices for the November election, more than 2,000 of them were rejected because of an invalid or missing signature.

That’s the same signature rejection percentage as the 2018 mid-term election in which more than a million fewer absentee ballots were submitted.

President Donald Trump on Thursday morning made a misleading claim that “almost ZERO ballots” were rejected in Georgia in the November election.