Election Ballots Shed New Light on Cursive Writing Debate

Election workers, attempting to verify ballots in the 2024 presidential election race, ran into difficulties and delays because signatures on mail-in ballots didn’t match those by the same individuals on Department of Motor Vehicle records. In Nevada, Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said on Nov. 5 that young people “who may not have a set signature” caused delays to the verification process, along with older voters who may have signed their names differently throughout their lives, or those who were recently married but didn’t update their last name changes on voter registration records. “Since the passage of Automatic Voter Registration, more Nevadans than ever sign their names on digital screens that may look different than their pen-to-paper signatures,” Aguilar said in an Election Day statement....