Dems' Legal Challenge to FL 'Signature Mismatch' Law Could Determine Guv, Senate Races

[questionseverything]

http://bradblog.com/?p=12784


On Thursday, Florida Democrats filed a federal lawsuit in which they alleged that the Sunshine State's, county-by-county, subjective signature match procedures for rejecting vote-by-mail (VBM) and provisional ballots are arbitrary, lacking in standards, and, over several election cycles, inconsistently applied so as to have a disparate impact on minority and young voters. This, the complaint alleges, deprives those voters of Equal Protection under the law as mandated by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

[still_one]

1. It is a valid challenge. I sign my name sometimes with my middle initial, sometimes with my full

middle name, and sometimes without an middle name.

This is voter disenfranchisement

[questionseverything]

2. what you are referring to is "exact match"

this lawsuit is about ballots being rejected because of the hand writing..... both are voter disenfranchisement

[still_one]

3. Thanks for the clarification. Similar thing though. Depending how tired I am, how much in a hurry

I am in, or the posture I am in when signing, my signature can look a little bit different depending. It is totally an arbitrary criteria, NO CRITERIA, because there is none

[questionseverything]

4. hard to keep track of how many ways they cheat us

as we font here...trump is twitting about tossing az results over signature matches

[panader0]

5. Who are these handwriting experts that make the decisions?

What are their qualifications? Did they go to handwriting expert school?
Or are they just a bunch of fogies that wear reading glasses?

[questionseverything]

6. that is really the point of nelson's law suit

there are no experts, just poll workers on a whim

[blueinredohio]

7. When I voted we signed with the electronic signature like you sign when you have taxes done.

I said to the lady it's a good thing you don't have to do an exact match because that looks nothing like my signature. She said I know these things are terrible.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. finally a 14th A challenge!