Georgia is determined to suppress votes

Mark Joseph Stern in Slate brings us the latest plot twist.

Then, days or weeks after the election, you receive a notice in the mail. The signature on your absentee ballot, it explains, looked different from the signature on your voter-registration card. So an election official threw out your ballot. There is nothing you can do. Your vote has been voided...

Signature-mismatch laws are a scourge of American elections. The very premise makes no sense: In a similar lawsuit filed in New Hampshire, a forensic document examiner testified that effective signature comparison requires 10 signature samples “at a minimum” to account for variability. Even then, experts may struggle to verify a signature, because our signatures often change over time. Voters who are disabled or elderly, or are nonnative English speakers, are especially likely to have variation between signatures. That’s one reason why New Hampshire’s mismatch law disproportionately impacted seniors, California’s disproportionately impacts first-generation Asian Americans, and Florida’s disproportionately impacts Hispanics.

Handwriting analysis? What's next? Ouija boards? Magic 8-Balls? Signs point to yes.

My lord, they're working hard. After all, those rats won't fck themselves.

  Charles P Pierce

Good grief. My signatures won't match if they're created an hour apart.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 10/24: