For the record, I don't like signature matching. I think that it's pseudoscience at best. I personally don't even match my own signature day-to-day, let alone match whatever I signed on the pad at the DMV. I think I could identify the common traits of my signature over the years, but I would seriously question anyone else who claimed to be able to do it accurately. And no, I wouldn't want AL deciding whether my signature was accurate enough. Fortunately (or unfortunately), the state has the single most restrictive set of rules on absentee ballots of any state in the country, so even an ID wouldn't be enough to let me do mail-in voting. And Washington has the online system to check if your signature was approved, so that's a nice backstop.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to voter IDs, in-person or by mail, but I just fundamentally don't think they are required to secure elections. I also don't believe that requiring them will stop the braying from the right about election security, since none of them are based on facts in the first place (see the Twitter thread below).

But what I didn't hear from you was an answer to the second question in my previous post: do you think the Washington system could be cheated systematically in a way to change an outcome? You can ignore that it's pretty blue and say there's an election decided by a couple thousand votes, which there was in 2022 when Perez beat Kent in District 3. Or if you think Washington is secure but Virginia is not, where is the weak link in Virginia?


[Post edited by CMUHoo at 03/28/2024 12:21PM]