Because many Gen Z voters have difficulty with cursive writing, many votes from younger voters apparently cannot be counted. Apparently your signature is not unique enough.
As presidential election votes continue to be counted, the New York Times is making people sit up with frightening news: thousands of votes from Generation Z mail-in voters in the state of Nevada had to be rejected. More than 13,000 votes were invalid.
State Secretary: Young people had ‘no more signatures’
“It’s mainly because young people today don’t have signatures,” Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said outside a polling place in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Digital signature is different from analog signature
The problem: The official state-recorded signature was often submitted digitally on a tablet, such as when registering a driver’s license. If a signature is later written by hand, it often cannot be compared to the digital signature. The signature is simply not recognized.
Nevada is considered a particularly crucial swing state for the US elections. Aguilar explained that authorities would ensure that the signature verification procedures now required are “applied uniformly across the state.” Cases are especially high in Clark County and Washoe County. “When you look at the number of cases and realize how many there are, you get nervous because these races are so close and the gaps are so small,” Aguilar said.
Many states no longer have cursive writing in schools
The problem is that “cursive writing is no longer taught in schools,” says the founder of the NGO Vote America, Sebra Cleaver, explaining this development. Since 2010, many states have removed handwriting from school curricula. Many people now in their late teens or early twenties would have had little or no cursive instruction and thus would never have learned their own unique handwriting.
About two-thirds of states have a “correction process” to notify voters that their ballots were not counted and give them a chance to correct the error. This is possible until November 12, a week after election day.
Source: Krone
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