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Orianna Rosa Royle

Gen Z voters lack the basic skill of signing their names and it's thrown vote counting into chaos, election official says

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Gen Z is no stranger to criticism for lacking basic skills. Now, they’re being blamed for slowing down the election count because they couldn’t even sign their own names.

More than 13,000 mail-in ballots had been rejected across Nevada because people’s signatures did not match those recorded on the voters’ driving licenses—many of them were Gen Zers who came of age during the pandemic and become accustomed to typing instead of writing in cursive. 

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