What handwriting? On the ballots in my precinct, all we had to do was blacken in circles to indicate the desired candidate.
What kind of handwriting could there be on a ballot? It's not like people have to sign their names to them.
Maybe not on the ballot itself, but don't they have to sign their name when they get checked off the voter roll? I know that here in South Carolina, I had to first go to a table where a lady had the master voter list for my precinct. I showed her my driver's license and voter registration card (either one would've been sufficient by itself), she found me on the voter list, and asked me to sign the register. Although I guess it'd be hard for the same person to keep coming in over and over again to do that.
Absentee ballots perhaps? I don't know. This does sound odd.
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These are presumably provisional/absentee ballots which are contained within an envelope where you write down your particulars and sign it.
Most of the time the data is written by the election worker when you are voting a provisional ballot, and then you just sign it. Your vote is put in an envelope, and that envelope is put inside the signed envelope thereby preserving anonymity.
This isn't the fill-in-the circle ballot that is being analyzed.
Absentee voters have to sign the outside of the envelope identifying who they are and where they live. The signature and address are supposed to be matched to the data on file, after which the envelope is discarded. Also, voters have to sign in at the polls. We'll know more soon.
The handwriting isn't on the ballot, it's on the voter roll when you walk into the precinct. You're supposed to sign in before voting.
Absentee votes require a signature on the cover envelope.
To my knowledge, only absentee ballots required real signatures. In our state, you only have to initial that your address is correct.
Well, must be all the blackened circles looked alike ;-)
I don't know how it is done in WA but here in Ky. You have to sign the book to vote. It is a list of registered voters in every precinct.
If you are not on the list of registered voters they give you a provisional ballot. You have to sign the outside of it. If your name is not on the updated registration list, the provisional ballot is to be set aside uncounted.
I assume every state has some variation on this.
Absentee ballot signatures.
With all the different ways that there are to vote across this country I tend to believe that there are some ways to vote where your handwriting would be a valid election challenge.
Just another reason to standardize National elections and not let local counties/states have the final say!
Maybe it's when they sign their names to vote. Maybe someone else signed their name before the poll opened and voted 400 times...LOL
My guess is absentee ballots.
"What handwriting? On the ballots in my precinct, all we had to do was blacken in circles to indicate the desired candidate."
In California to get a ballot to vote on election day, we have to sign our name in a designated space by our printed name in the computer printout.
We had a friend in the old days before our computer voting who would show up at the last minute before the polls closed. She would look at the names and signatures and get a quick tally of voters. Then she would sign the book with her name and the last voter # with the number by her signature.
In the 2000 election, the gals at the voting place demanded to know what she was doing. Her response was that if there where any votes past hers, someone was going to jail.
There's a lot of handwriting on an absentee ballot.
They probably sign the voter registration cards, names are then matched to ballots.
Maybe they mean on the envelopes of the absentee ballots. We have a lot of absentee votes here in Washington.
I need an explanation for that, too!