While “no-excuses” vote-by-mail is offered by thirty-six states and five states have moved to 100% vote-by-mail, there still exists a reluctance to move completely to a vote-by-mail process. Some of this reluctance is based on tradition while another is driven by concerns over security and reliability.

In the process to adopt vote-by-mail, there are many aspects to consider to ensure that processes involved produce the highest level of reliability. There is a technology solution to address the issues of security and reliability called Automated Signature Verification (ASV) fully explored in this white paper.

The key factors explored in these pages are as follows:

• Challenges of Signature Verification including signature matching
• Automated Signature Verification (ASV) and where ASV is in use today
• The Science Behind ASV including its elements, analysis and neural networks
• Verifying ASV Results for Vote-By-Mail