> As the US banking system (and especially the bank clearinghouses controlled
> by the Federal Reserve system) has gone electronic, all the banks I know of
> have stopped bothering to verify the signatures on checks, and similarly
> those on credit- and debit-card drafts. Getting them to start using digital
> signatures would be a big improvement over the current wide-open situation.
As compared to the State of Oregon which has now gone over
to keeping a digitized image of the ink signature of every
registered voter for visual verification, the better to run
its all-absentee election process, or for that matter FedEx,
UPS, and numerous P.O.S. terminals all of which have copies
of my hand signature, like it or not.
--dan
