While we are talking about signatures, it's relevant to raise elections. In Washington State we've had vote-by-mail for decades, and up until recently under the

While we are talking about signatures, it's relevant to raise elections. In Washington State we've had vote-by-mail for decades, and up until recently under the management of Republican secretaries of state (IE: bipartisan support). In eastern Washington, counties are suppressing voters by discarding votes that they claim do not have a match to the signature card. The majority of these discarded votes are from Hispanic / latino voter (who in themselves are not a majority of the population). Before anyone objects - all studies on vote by mail have shown incredibly low rates of fraud - it's just not an issue. Likewise - ask a Washington voter when the last time they updated their signature card and they are likely to laugh - it's something you do when you register to vote and you forget about for decades. So yes, signatures really do matter as in our case it is absolutely being used to suppress voters. ---- As a real estate agent, 99.999% of the signatures I deal with are digital. You can complete every signature in buying a home digitally, depending on payment method - ironically the banks still want real ink, but if you pay cash you can go digital. This is the only thing stopping the entire process from also happening in an entirely remote / online fashion.