Rudy Giuliani doesn't understand how signature-matching works under Georgia law. Signatures are verified BEFORE ballots are counted. They cannot be checked again in a recount under GA constitution that protects secrecy of a voter's identity. Ballot is detached after verification.

Here's why the actual votes of Georgia citizens are secret under the GA constitution: "Voters cast their ballots in secret so that no political party or candidate can ever intimidate nor threaten a voter into changing his or her vote," Sec. Brad Raffensperger

Because there were vote-buying schemes decades ago. The person paying would check to verify the person followed through to cast the purchased vote. So GA voters amended their constitution to make all votes secret. The signatures are verified first, then unmarried from the ballot.

This is also why it is against the rules to take a photo of your own ballot in the polling place in GA. For the same reason -- it could be used as proof to collect payment after the fact.

Just to get an absentee ballot, Georgia requires signed paper applications, or if requested online, driver license/state ID numbers. Those are matched BEFORE they'll send a ballot. Then the absentee ballot inner envelope has to be signed & that's matched before ballot is counted.

The signed absentee envelopes are retained for litigation. Yes, those can be re-checked, but they cannot be linked with the ballot after the initial verification. So even if you invalidated a signed envelope now, you could not invalidate the ballot it once contained.

Vast majority of Georgia voters cast 'in person absentee' ballots this election. They're not absentee ballots. It was actually in-person early voting, handled the same as election-day voting. ID check and signature verification before you can cast a ballot. I saw this 1st hand.

An unsigned privacy sleeve (marked 'ballot') is inside the signed envelope. So even the person verifying the signature can't see the absentee ballot inside. Eventually, emptied ballot sleeves are discarded, which is why someone in Spalding County thought ballots were thrown out.