Half of ballots rejected on signature disqualification disenfranchised

So why is it that we set up this system to validate signatures, and the number one reason ballots are disqualified is not fraud, but signatures that don’t match based on changes over time. In short 3,000+  votes didn’t count last year in King County not because they didn’t vote, or voted fraudulently, but in [...]

Mail ballots more likely to record undervotes

This pretty much speaks for itself:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2007/02/07/s3b_voting_0207.html
All paper voting is not equal. A voter casting a paper ballot at a polling place was more likely to record a vote than a voter filling out a paper absentee ballot. Polling places have optical scanners that warn voters if they have made an invalid double-vote or left their [...]