Hi All,


Apologies if you receive this more than once.


I'm posting this because I suspect others here will encounter the same 
issue.


In this year's presidential election, I voted by mail. I did it the same 
way I've done it since the mid nineties. My mom read me the ballot and 
filled out my choices. She showed me where to sign. Then a day or two 
later, she slipped the ballot into an official dropbox while she was 
running errands. I've never had a problem ... until now.


With the extra vigilance brought on by the current political climate, 
someone at the elections office noticed the signature on my ballot 
doesn't match the signature on my voter registration form, so last week, 
I received a letter that gave me several options. They all amounted to 
my providing a new signature.  I didn't think that would help. Since I'm 
unable to actually see what I'm writing, I felt pretty certain the third 
signature wouldn't match the other two.


I decided to go to the elections office with my letter. The person who 
waited on me was very nice. I had to explain three or four times before 
she understood that my signature is never the same, but once she did, 
she told me to have a seat while she spoke to her supervisor. Here's 
what they came up with:


1. I signed the letter, and she witnessed the signature.


And


2. I need to send in a new voter registration form with my signature.


The point of doing both of these things is to put several versions of my 
signature on file so that anyone checking in future can have an idea of 
what makes sense for my writing.


I suspect that there will be a lot of variation in how the mismatched 
signatures of blind people is handled. I'm getting the word out to the 
community to lessen the unpleasant surprise and to give people a sense 
of what to do. I'm also curious to know what experiences others have had.


Ciao


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