Sloppy signatures roil Florida election recounts

An article in The New York Times about the Florida recount and the role that sloppy signatures may play in disqualifying thousands of votes interviews Tamara Plakins Thornton, professor of history, who said that the signature battle is rooted in larger societal trends that are rapidly rendering an individual’s handwriting an unreliable electoral hallmark. “The culture, and technology, are making signatures a devalued currency,” she said. “They came into popularity as a means of expressing a person’s individuality, which made them good for identification. Now people will just use an emoji.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/us/voting-signatures-matching-elections.html