[Ads-l] Write vs. Sign

[Rich Lowenthal]

I grew up in Maryland and was taught that "write your name" means to 
sign it in cursive, as opposed to "print your name." "Sign your name" 
also meant cursive.


------ Original Message ------
>From "James Landau" <00000c13e57d49b8-dmarc-request at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
To ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Date 11/4/2026 11:49:35 AM
Subject Write vs. Sign

>Yesterday I was a poll worker (New Jersey Linwood Ward 2 District 3).  For in-person voting New Jersey requires the voter to sign his/her name in cursive twice,  once on a computer (for signature verification) and once on hardcopy.
>Several times when I asked a voter to "write your name" the voter replied "do you want me to write or to sign?"   I eventually found out that to these voters "write your name" meant to PRINT your name" and "sign your name" meant to put it in cursive.
>I never heard of this distinction before.  Has anyone else?"
>For those of you interested in statistics, out of 938 voters registered in Linwood 2-3,  110 voted early, 106 voted by mail (the computer system listed these as "absentee"), and 313 voted in person yesterday.   This is 56.4% of eligible voters voting, which is pretty good for a midterm election.
>
>James Landau
>jjjrlandau at netscape.com
>
>

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