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In reply to the discussion: Obama to Grant Banks Robosigning Immunity [View all]AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Robosigning of false documents = no one is responsible.
In contrast,
Signing of false documents by a person who is required to actually look at the documents = someone is reponsible and can be made to either act responsibly or suffer the consequences.
The law's requirement of having someone swear under penalty of perjury that the representations made by them are known by them to be true causes some people to exercise caution and not just carelessly do whatever they want without thinking.
Excusing robosiging on the grounds that false documents might have otherwise been created through carelessness would result in no one being held accountable and would further promote the creation of additional false documents.
Under the reasoning that the creation of false documents with robosigning should be excused because some false documents might have otherwise been created through human error or not, why record any documents at all? Why not just let the banks decide upon whose property that they want to take?