On April 21, the proponents of two Arizona statewide initiatives filed an appeal in Arizonans for Fair Elections v Hobbs, the case over whether Arizona should permit initiative campaigns to gather electronic signatures. U.S. District Court Judge Dominic Lanza, a Trump appointee, had rejected their case.
Arizona permits electronic signatures for candidate petitions, but not independent presidential petitions and not petitions to qualify a party.
Petitions signatures require a witness to a signature. A witness to a signatures is a practice for hundreds or thousands of years to protect the sanctity of documentation. This will be absolutely thrown out the window. One reason I don’t like absentee voting. Should be a compelling reason. More polling stations or more election days like 10 days in advance. How does one witness an electronic signature?
How many witnesses needed for checks and money orders and contracts in general ???
Answer — ZERO
ONE person forms — nomin and issue pets.
Part of the witness stuff was due to most folks being unable to read/write in olde England in the DARK AGE.
Nuuu Dark Age now ???
Only some states require witnesses on petitions. Some of those are not consistent between initiatives and candidate/party petitions. Some legal contracts require witnesses, some don’t. Checks obviously don’t.
Also – cheaper paper only in 1840’s.
Expensive olde paper for major purposes — bibles, marriages, land ownership, allegiance docs, regime laws, etc.