Election-Campaign Law

Signatures ? The Difficult Part

By Thad Hall

In our edited book Election Fraud there is a Chapter by Todd Donovan and Dan Smith about signature fraud and their analysis shows that a small but significant number of signatures in petition drives are fraudulent.

Also, and even more problematic though, is that signature checking is not easy but is often treated as a “duh” activity, as though comparing signatures is something everyone can do. There is actually a large literature in psychology showing why signature comparisons are very hard.

Full post as published by Election Updates on August 21, 2009 (boomark / email).