"Signatures don't match" - Deep, deep BS

[packman]

Hell, my signatures don't match from day to day let alone month to month. Lately I am getting a kick out of using my first two initials (quite distinctive) and using a fictional name in a scrawl to see if anyone is paying attention. So far signed forms as "DJNapoleon", "DJBullwinkle", "DJPuffinstuff", etc.

Shit, what are the Repukes going to do, call in expert handwriting people?

[Zorro]

1. I was a poll worker for this past election

I was surprised at how many peoples' signatures were completely illegible when they signed to receive their ballots. They literally were jerky hand motion scribbles. Older voters tended to actually sign readable signatures.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Me too, for several years, and...

I have never seen anyone's signature questioned. It's not even mentioned in the training sessions.

[Codeine]

2. My signature changes over time.

I know for a fact the signature I used when I registered bears no resemblance to the one I use now. Luckily it doesn’t seem to have any significance as I vote in person and nobody pays the slightest attention to my signature.

[Maeve]

3. Direct quote from the Franklin Co (OH) poll workers manual

We use an Electronic Poll Book, so they sign on a screen

..turn the screen around and have the voter use the stylus to sign on the signature line.

Turn the screen back to face you and ensure there is a signature.

Touch Accept.

Note that we do NOT check if the sigs match, just that there is one. The picture ID is the identification, not the signature. Signatures vary from day to day and there are many medical conditions that can result in a change in dexterity. That said, most of the sigs are roughly similar and we were told this year to request they use their "legal signature" when signing in (and yes, a legal mark "X" can be accepted).

[sinkingfeeling]

5. No signature signed on a screen will ever match one signed on paper.

[lark]

6. Same process for FL for in person voting.

It's the mail in ballots and absentee versions where they go stupid crazy with wanting "exact matches". Boo!!

[shraby]

7. Whenever I have to sign on a screen, it looks like a 5 year old signed it.

Not used to a slippery substance to write on. Paper isn't that smooth.

[Le Gaucher]

4. My signatures don't match from one minute to the next ..the problem has gotten worse over the years

Who the fuck are they to determine my identity based on my signature

[riverbendviewgal]

8. Many schools do Not teach cursive writing

So is printed name to be accepted?

[doc03]

10. On those electronic credit card things I think you could sign an

X and it would work.

[doc03]

9. Sometimes I sign using my middle initial some times I don't.

I suppose I would be disqualified if they didn't match.

[Bengus81]

12. Pfffttt....I signed one of those screens about two weeks ago..........

I had to bend over to sign it,the stylus was slow,hardly looked like my sig at all. But...it was accepted.