A recent article in the NY Times about ‘sloppy signatures’ that could disqualify mail-in votes cast during the November mid-term US elections, made me wonder if signatures written with a pen on paper are just about dead. Whenever I have to sign my name on an electronic pad, either with my finger or a stylus, I feel embarrassed with the strange representation of my ‘real’ signature that I produce. I’ve had to do these for deliveries and at cashier checkouts. For fun I've often wondered if I were to write ‘This is Not Me’ would anyone even notice? In Florida and other jurisdictions, squiggly doodle signatures captured on electronic signing pads wind up on your driver’s license. And if the doodle doesn’t look like the pen and ink signature on your paper ballot, your mail-in vote might be disqualified. Use an emoji instead? Some say technology and culture are devaluing signatures. Tamara Thornton, a University of Buffalo professor who has studied the history of handwriting, says that the time of signatures is quickly fading. “They came into popularity as a means of expressing a person’s individuality,” she told the NY Times, “which made them good for identification. Now people will just use an emoji.” An emoji? Have we come to the point where we will represent our legal identity with this