Gen Z voters' signatures are causing problems for Nevada ballot counters [View all]

[Jk23]

For many of today’s young adults, having a consistent signature isn’t much of a necessity – until it comes time to vote.

Thousands of voters in Nevada — many of them young — still need to verify their signatures on mail-in ballots before they can be counted by the Nov. 12 deadline, Nevada’s top election administrator said Tuesday.

Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (D) said that since the passage of automatic voter registration in the state — where a digital signature created when a person applied for their driver’s licene is linked to their online voter registration — “more Nevadans than ever sign their names on digital screens that may look different than their pen-to-paper signatures.”

Young people especially “may not have a set signature developed yet,” Aguilar said in an emailed statement.

https://archive.fo/KFxMv#selection-775.0-784.0

I wondered about this myself. I developed my signature singing thousands of tickets as a 24 in the nineties. Young people simply don't have a reason hand-sign things that often.