California: Disagreements over electronic signatures take shape

Tue, Feb 23 2010 — Source: San Jose Mercury News

San Mateo County’s elections chief says he is all for technology, but isn’t about to accept the first electronic signature ever submitted to help qualify a California ballot proposition. But hours after Chief Elections Officer Warren Slocum announced Tuesday that he would reject any electronic signature scribbled on an iPhone’s touch screen, the founders of a Silicon Valley start-up company said they would file a lawsuit this week challenging the rejection.