Georgia’s governor, while certifying the election results, has now called for another full hand recount of the same results and asking for a comparison of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes to be compared with applications on file.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...election-update-live-stream-today-2020-11-20/
My first thought is this: are these people who conduct this comparison handwriting experts and is there a handwriting expert employed at every polling station? Otherwise it would seem to be quite a subjective undertaking.
I voted in Georgia for 50 years, 1966 to 2016. My “application” must be 50 years old. From 2003 to 2012 I voted absentee ballot. Maybe a true handwriting expert can detect my signature over that time but I doubt that someone like my mother who was a poll worker from the 1930’s to the 1990’s could have done that with accuracy.
There are two r’s in my name. For a long time my signature in cursive showed the r’s like a printed r and unlike the cursive r that resembles the Devils Tower. Then I switched back again. I haven’t written much since I retired in 2006 but before then arthritis in my hand caused me to begin to print rather than write cursive. I rarely sign checks and that card chip reader at the checkout counter gets a different signature every time. After moving out of state 3 years ago, I had to fill out forms for new doctors, etc., and writing English letters for me was like writing a logogram.
So I would hate to know that my vote could be rejected because some part time poll worker said that ain’t his handwriting.
As usual I’m probably missing something here so somebody tell me what it is.
