signature matching

Throughout October, ideastream is answering your questions about the election, voting and more. We talked with Faith Lyon, director of the Portage County Board of Elections, and got answers to your many ballot signature validation questions. “We’re looking for similarities and closeness,” she told ideastream. “We understand certain conditions cause individual signatures to maybe vary daily. So we’re really looking for that consistency of what is close to your normal signature.”

Haley Belisle, a recent graduate of Ohio Northern University, was baffled this spring when the Hardin County Board of elections rejected her application…

A federal court has declined to change Ohio's process of signature-matching used to help verify absentee ballots.Judge Michael H. Watson from the U.S.…

With just two weeks before voters start casting ballots in Ohio, there are four different lawsuits pending over the state's voting process. They range…