Affiant:
An affiant is someone who files an affidavit, which is a written statement used as evidence in court. In order to be admissible, affidavits must be notarized by a notary public.
The notary public is there to ensure the validity of the signature and guarantee that the signature was applied voluntarily and without coercion. Once the affiant acknowledges signing the document for its intended purpose and signs the affidavit, the document is notarized and becomes a sworn affidavit. [Notarize]
Noted in an Erick Erickson email:
In Michigan, upon examination of 234 pages of affidavits, a judge tossed the fraud claims. The claims amounted to no more than 1000 votes out of 148,000+ votes cast and, more importantly, upon the testimony of the affiants, it was clear they just didn’t understand the process and had not shown up for their training.
Which is what I would expect from the incompetency infecting what passes for conservatives these days. From the same email:
In Arizona, people filed scores of affidavits about the voting system there and the use of sharpie markers on the ballots. Not only was it physically shown that the ballots could be counted with sharpies and bleed-through of the markers was not an issue, but the affiants, under examination, all recanted their affidavits. That is important. All these people swore out affidavits and under examination walked back their claims.
I’ve certainly critiqued and even laughed at Erickson over the years, but at least, perhaps due to his training as an election lawyer, when an election isn’t going his way, he’ll admit it.
Unlike the clowns he favored in the election.
