Established Fact
The state court restricted forensic document examiners to reviewing only 100 randomly selected mail-in ballots for signature comparisons and evaluated only 1,626 duplicated ballots. The court concluded errors were statistically negligible and dismissed the case, preventing a statistically significant or comprehensive forensic audit of Maricopa County ballots. The arbitrarily narrow discovery perimeter precluded any statistically valid conclusion about systemic signature verification failures.
Citations
Arizona Supreme Court Decision Order, Appendix in Ward v. Jackson: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-809/163521/20201211121632424_12-11-20%20Appendix%20Ward%20v%20Jackson.pdf | US Supreme Court
Motion to Compel Continued Inspection of Ballots, filed Dec. 2, 2020, reproduced at Exhibit D, pp. A19–A24, in Appendix to Petition for Certiorari, Ward v. Jackson, No. 20-809 (U.S. Dec. 11, 2020), https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/20/20-809/163521/20201211121632424_12-11-20%20Appendix%20Ward%20v%20Jackson.pdf.