Nevada’s secretary of state said Tuesday he fears over 13,000 ballots and counting will have to go through “signature curing” before they can be tabulated because signatures on the ballots do not match what the state has in its records. That is much more than usual, Francisco Aguilar told The New York Times, adding that it’s overwhelmingly young people who are to blame. “When you start to look at the data and you start to realize how high it is, it makes you nervous,” he said, adding that the “margins are so slim” in Nevada between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Most of the problem ballots are in Clark County, home to Las Vegas, and in Washoe County, home to Reno. Nevada is one of seven critical swing states, with Joe Biden winning the state four years ago by just 33,596 votes. Should this election be just as close—or closer, as polls suggest it will be—it may come down the problem ballots to determine a winner. “It’s mostly the fact that young people don’t have signatures these days,” Aguilar said, explaining the sudden uptick in bad signatures. “And when they did register to vote through the automatic voter registration process, they signed a digital pad at DMV, and that became their license signature.”
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