Monica Torres is a senior work/life reporter for HuffPost who writes about the workplace, career anxieties and general lifestyle topics. She is a 2016 member of Poynter's Diversity in Digital Leadership class. She is based in New York.
Mismatched signatures were the most common reason a mail-in ballot got rejected in the 2020 general election. Don't let it be the reason your mail-in vote gets rejected this year.Before you send off your mail-in ballot, ensure you signed the ballot envelope with a signature that matches the one you typically write. Verifying a voter’s signature on a mailed ballot is the waydetermine that you are who you say you are.
Once your local election office receives your mail-in ballot, an automated signature verification system might do a first pass of scanning ballot signatures, and a bipartisan team or multiple reviewers may be the next layer, depending on your jurisdiction. Thomas Vastrick, a forensics document examiner who has consulted with election staff in Florida, said the three biggest signature areas he teaches workers to look at are signature slant, relative heights of the letters, and letter design. He said a person adding a new surname because they got married should not be a red flag, but a person who wrote their signatures previously in cursive but is now writing in a print handwriting style would be, as an example.
Diaz said a cure period is necessary under the due process clause of the Constitution, because of “the risk of erroneously depriving somebody of their right to vote.”
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