Gen Z voters lack the basic skill of signing their names and it’s thrown vote counting into chaos, election official says
More than 13,000 mail-in ballots had been rejected across Nevada because people’s signatures did not match those recorded on ...
How the death of cursive is complicating our elections
The legibility of cursive signatures on mail-in ballot envelopes could well become a disenfranchisement problem.
Unverified signatures slowing down ballot counts in Nevada
Faulty signatures come down to various factors, including voters not knowing how to sign their name, not updating their voter ...
Gen Z voters’ signatures are causing problems for Nevada ballot counters
Handwritten signatures are an outdated way of verifying votes, says VoteAmerica, a political NGO. Thousands of Nevada voters ...
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US schools aren't teaching cursive. Now GenZ voters struggle to cast ballots
The decline of cursive education has left many Gen Z voters without a unique signature, creating ballot verification issues in states with mail-in voting in the ongoing US presidential elections.
Gen Z doesn't know how to sign their names - and it's impacting the election
Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar said the results may take longer to come in because the state is facing an uptick ...
Many Gen Z voters struggle to sign their names. That's becoming a problem as they cast their ballots.
Young voters in Nevada, many of whom didn't grow up learning cursive in school, are having difficulty voting, the secretary ...
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Gen Z Signatures Put Some Nevada Ballots in Limbo
You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. More than 13,000 mail-in ballots in Nevada’s two most populous counties—Clark and Washoe—had ...
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Is Handwriting a Lost Art? What One College’s Kerfuffle Over Cursive Can Tell Us
Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...
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These 5,000-year-old seals might have paved the way for the invention of writing (and the birth of history)
Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.
Google Inksight lets you convert your scrappy handwriting to digital text using AI
Google has just announced a new model technology called Insight, which it’s calling an ‘offline to online handwriting conversion tool’. Basically that means scanning a photo of handwritten text and ...
Gen Z voters are mobilizing more than past generations, motivated by issues like abortion
Political groups and candidates are targeting young voters, who are motivated by specific policies like abortion.