Quote:So what's the big deal? You can make allowances for no signature why can't you make the same allowance for unmatching signatures?

 

When you forget to sign it, it shows a lapse of judgement and they send you notice. They give you another chance. When the signature doesn't match, I'd argue that it wasn't a lapse of judgement.

 

Would you approve of a bank that discovers unmatching signatures on one of your checks but allows them to cash it anyway? Of course not. You'd raise hell if they did that. 

 

Quote:And that's kind of the problem. It's an arbitrary standard with no transparency that can easily be manipulated to benefit the person doing the interpreting.

 

Not every single part of government work can be transparent at all times. Why does unmatching signature need a specific code to determine their legitimacy?

 

I imagine you'd be able to identify two different signatures, and my bet would be that if they were too close to tell, you wouldn't call them different. I agree that there's potential to use this arbitrarily, I doubt it happened 23,000 times by multiple groups over different parts of Florida. I couldn't confirm it, but I think the canvassing board (like every thing else in elections) is made up of people from both major political affiliations. 

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