> signature is checked to verify it is yours
Are you sure? That doesn’t seem right. How are they verifying it?
Are you sure? That doesn’t seem right. How are they verifying it?
The answer is the same. They look at it. This isn't rocket science.
Who didn't forge their parent's signature in grade school once in a while? It's trivial to fake signatures - particularly since most people aren't trained Graphologists.
Heck, my local grocery store requires me to swipe my government issued ID just to prove my age to buy some beer... they scan your government issued ID to get into some bars and clubs even... but we won't allow that at the voting booth?
True. But a malicious actor would need to forge hundreds or thousands of signatures convincingly. And firstly get their hands on the signature database.
I highly, highly doubt and am very skeptical of this supposed signature database and how well it can verify a person's signature. It just sounds like hocus pocus to me.
Why? California DMV has your signature on file when you get a driver's license.
> how well it can verify a person's signature.
I think people do that, not software.
They make you sign on a small digital screen that barely registers your pen movements. The one on my license looks like a 3 year old drew some scribbles on it. It definitely doesn't resemble my pen-and-paper signature and I can't be alone in that.
> I think people do that, not software.
How can they get through 15-30 million ballots in anything resembling a timely manner? This entire thing sounds made up it's so absurd.
Pretty darn close to impossible to fake that.
Then you signed the book in front of the ballot person as a sort of "proof" the information was correct and you were voting.
So basically, it's just an honor system.
One could theoretically vote in the morning under your real name, then come back in the afternoon and vote again as your neighbor - so long as you beat them there.