what would happen if i changed my signature?

IronWing

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I got a letter from the county recorder's office telling me that my signature seems to have drifted over time and that I needed to complete a new voter registration card or I might be required to fill a provisional ballot in the next election.
 

Locut0s

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What would happen? Well technically you'd need to renew all your ID that had your signature on it. Realistically you could get away with not renewing a lot of things. Stores almost never check credit card signatures as they never really match anyway (trust me almost no one's signature is very close to their signature on their card).
 

Arcadio

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You know you're a nerd when the first thing you think about when you see the word "signature" is an internet forum signature.
 

ChanHo78

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Don't do it! The signature police will hunt you down and arrest you! They are an offshoot of the mattress tag police but more hardcore. Proceed at your own risk!
 

kranky

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Not sure what you mean by your "current signature". You intentionally change the way you sign your name from time to time?
 

Locut0s

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Not sure what you mean by your "current signature". You intentionally change the way you sign your name from time to time?

I've thought of it myself. I never developed a proper John Hancock so my signature is just my full name written out in extra cursive handwriting (yes I know that's what John Hancock's was too). Would like to have a more compact more aesthetically pleasing signature but never bothered to develop one.
 

lxskllr

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Mine looks like scribble. I have 13 letters in my signature, and I bet no more than 3 are identifiable(with some work)
 

BoomerD

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Mine looks like scribble. I have 13 letters in my signature, and I bet no more than 3 are identifiable(with some work)

I write pretty well...for a doctor. :p

My signature has changed quite a bit over the years. At one time, you could read every letter. Nowadays, it's just a scrawl.
 

ChanHo78

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I've thought of it myself. I never developed a proper John Hancock so my signature is just my full name written out in extra cursive handwriting (yes I know that's what John Hancock's was too). Would like to have a more compact more aesthetically pleasing signature but never bothered to develop one.

you mean Herbie Hancock right?
 

lxskllr

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you mean Herbie Hancock right?

This?


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brblx

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your signature matters absolutely shit-all.

you can sign a legal contract with someone else's name written in big block letters, and it's still binding.

pirates signing with an 'x'? yeah, you can do that, too.
 

lxskllr

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your signature matters absolutely shit-all.

you can sign a legal contract with someone else's name written in big block letters, and it's still binding.

pirates signing with an 'x'? yeah, you can do that, too.

My father did IRS collections and auditing years ago, and some of the people he dealt with were illiterate. Some had the official signature of holding a pencil, and hitting the top of it. The mark it made was their signature :^D
 

yinan

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I dont think my signature has ANY actual valid letters. Most times I just sign X cause I am lazy and it doesnt matter.
 

FoBoT

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i look forward to my grandchildren asking me to tell them about the olden days when you had to write your name on stuff to certify it instead of just doing a DNA scan
 
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Basically nothing. I've never had a signature really. There are some similarities in how I sign my name usually, but generally speaking it's different every time. I think the main reason I'm never called on it is that my writing is so God awful that no one can read it anyway so who cares.
 

Aluvus

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i look forward to my grandchildren asking me to tell them about the olden days when you had to write your name on stuff to certify it instead of just doing a DNA scan

The point of a signature is that it verifies intent; you chose to write it, someone else saw that you chose to write it, and we all agree that you decided of your own free will to write it. Verifying your DNA does not accomplish this, doubly so if you have an identical twin.
 

olds

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Mar 3, 2000
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My signature never looks the same.
I had a chick in a sore once try to compare my sig on a cc receipt. I asked her if she had been to the FBI academy in Quantico because that's where they taught signature identification.
 

zeruty

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My signature never looks the same.
I had a chick in a sore once try to compare my sig on a cc receipt. I asked her if she had been to the FBI academy in Quantico because that's where they taught signature identification.

You fit a woman inside of a sore?? You are way more talented than I realized.
What kind of sore was it?