When Ron Filipkowski signed in to vote yesterday in FL, they rejected his first signature:

[tblue37]

When I signed in to vote yesterday in FL, they rejected my first signature because it wasn’t close enough to my driver’s license signature. I signed again and they accepted it. Had that been a mail-in ballot, my vote would have been rejected.

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[SheltieLover]

1. One of the main reasons I vote in person!

[lark]

2. Reason #1 to early vote vs. mailed in ballots.

If mail in isn't perfect, it's rejected out of hand. Some states/counties encourage follow up and fixing the issue, but when I was calling for Dems in FL, not one person knew their ballot was rejected until I called from the party.

[ColinC]

9. Thank you!!

[blueinredohio]

3. My electronic signature looks nothing like my actual signature.

[Rebl2]

6. Same here

I have had arthritis in my hands for MANY years and my writing ability has changed over the years. My signature is messy looking sometimes depending on how my hands feel.

[hlthe2b]

4. For some unknown reason, my ballot has always had my (never used) middle name

And that signature is not what appears on my driver's license or any other legal document I have signed since my 20's. Never in my life have I used my middle name nor certainly signed it.

So, I sign with my middle name on the line, and then below it, my official legal signature with only the middle initial. Though it is Colorado where sanity tends to prevail, I am still relieved that it has never been questioned. But, I take no chances. I suppose it helps that my handwriting is distinctive yet legible and has not changed all that much over the years, but that is not the case for a lot of people, especially those with injuries, arthritis, or after a stroke. We really are setting up a lot of people for disenfranchisement.

[CaptainTruth]

5. This is exactly why I don't vote by mail in FL.

[packman]

7. Same with me

did in-person voting. Gave the person driver lic. and voter reg. card, signed ballot (Shaking, trembling hand- NOTHING like sig on license) she looked at license twice and me and I knew she had doubts. Got my ballot though and voted.

If in doubt, do go in and do it in person- Hell, I don't even recognize my own signature now.

[tiredtoo]

8. My son voted absentee in N.Carolina

Told me he had to get his signature notarized.

[MurrayDelph]

10. Oregon is 100% Vote by Mail

I usually drop our ballots off at the county drop-off a couple of weeks early. Once, I got a postcard asking me to come in and verify the signature. I went in, verified identity, and was home again, all in less than ten minutes.

Still easier than voting in person (especially this year when I have a surgery that day, and cannot sign legally).

[moonscape]

11. Last election I asked to update my signature because

I realized it had been ~45 years since registering in CA. Voting is safe, easy, straightforwatd in my deep blue community but still …

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. I've have friends who have had mail in ballots rejected here in blue Chicago.

This is why I vote in person. On Election Day.


I once had a Chicago Democratic election worker question my signature and ask me for ID - which I didn’t have handy. Before I went “Postal” the Republican judge sitting next to her rolled her eyes and said let him vote.