For Florida Voters, Signatures Are Stressful

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/opinion/letters/florida-voters-signatures.html

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To the Editor:

Re “Parsing Signatures, Not Chads, in Florida Vote” (front page, Nov. 15):

I’m a Florida 2018 midterms voter who had asked for a mail-in ballot. As I was finishing it up, I saw the notice that my signature must match the one in their records or my vote would be no good. Realizing that my vote would likely be rejected because my signature has always been a scrawl, I decided to go in person for early voting instead.

I brought my mail-in ballot with me to the polling place. When I was about to vote, even though I was there in person and had shown a photo ID (my driver’s license), I was told I still had to give my signature, and that it must match their records in order for my vote to count!

The signature required was on one of those electronic pad devices. And you don’t sign the same way on those as you do on paper — let alone the same way you did however many months or years ago when the signature of record was made.

How can politicians get away with taking away your vote, ostensibly to protect against fraud, without in any way demonstrating that there is any fraud?

Art SalukPembroke Pines, Fla.