Many Gen Zers don’t know how to sign their names, and that’s completely ruining the election.
Thousands of people around the world are anxiously waiting to find out who will be the next president of the United States: Kamala Harris or Donald Trump.
But Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar has revealed that results may take longer to arrive because the state faces a surge in mail-in ballots rejected due to issues with voter signatures.
According he New York TimesAutographs on mail-in ballot envelopes must match the person’s signature in the voter registration database.
And Francisco told the publication. that because many ‘young people’ are not focused on creating signatures ‘today’, their votes are not counted.
Many members of Generation Z don’t know how to sign their names, and that is completely ruining the elections, revealed Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar (file image)
He said people can fix election problems until Nov. 12, meaning we may not know whether the swing state has gone Democratic or Republican for days.
He told the New York Times that the state is facing a surge in rejected mail-in ballots due to issues with voter signatures.
As of Monday night, it revealed that more than 18,500 ballots had been rejected in Clark County alone, the most populous county in the battleground state, which is where Las Vegas is located.
“The main reason is that nowadays young people do not have signatures,” Francisco explained.
“And when they registered to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital passbook at the DMV, and that became their license signature.”
Many schools in the United States have stopped teaching students cursive writing amid the rise of technology.
In 2010, the practice was removed from the National Common Core Standards for K-12 education, and now only 24 of 50 states require it to be taught in schools.
Francisco added that the problem with signatures on ballots “goes beyond youth,” as “older voters who may sign their names differently throughout their lives” have also had their votes rejected. mail.