Students Unable To Sign Own Names

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[From article]
Many Big Apple students, including the children of several state lawmakers, can’t even sign their own names, it was revealed at an educational budget hearing in Albany today.
“Not only is it sad, but it’s a security issue,” said Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis (R-SI/Brooklyn).
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students have become so tech-oriented that they never learn how to sign their John Hancock, which renders them unable to properly ink contracts, checks and credit cards.
Malliotakis said the penmanship problem was brought to her attention while helping one of her constituents fill out a voter registration form. He printed his name, and when she told him to actually sign it, he insisted that was his signature.
Even the 11-year-old daughter of veteran Harlem legislator Herman “Denny” Farrell doesn’t know how to sign her name.
“And she’s smarter than me,” Farrell said of his daughter, Prince, who attends a private school in Harlem. “They don’t teach it. I’m going to go home now and teach her handwriting.”
LeRoy Comrie, a senator from Queens, told Malliotakis his son never learned that skill either.
“Can you imagine?” Malliotakis told The Post. “Not only does it mean you can’t sign a business contract, but it makes you vulnerable to identity theft because anyone can just go ahead and print your name.”

http://nypost.com/2016/01/27/many-nyc-students-cant-even-sign-their-own-names/

Many NYC students can’t even sign their own names
By Kirstan Conley
New York Post
January 27, 2016 4:12pm

Science Magazine Withdraws Published Survey Study

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Science magazine Thursday formally retracted a highly touted article about a study gauging the ability of openly gay canvassers to shift voters’ views toward support for same-sex marriage.
Columbia University political science professor Donald Green, one of the article’s authors, requested the retraction on May 19, saying co-author Michael LaCour had been unable to produce the raw data that was used in the study.
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The magazine said it based its retraction on misrepresentation of cash incentives for survey participants, false statements about financial sponsorship of the survey, and the inability to produce original data, “which makes it impossible to verify or alleviate concerns about statistical irregularities.”
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The study claimed that opinion changes produced by the straight canvassers tended to fade within a few weeks and those voters reverted to their previous, less favorable views of same-sex marriage. It said that the changes in viewpoints produced by the gay canvassers persisted nine months later.
Green began to have misgivings about the study after the integrity of the data was called into question by two graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley, who tried to launch a similar study

http://nypost.com/2015/05/29/science-magazine-retracts-gay-marriage-article/

Science magazine retracts gay-marriage article
By Fox News
New York Post
May 29, 2015 | 12:53pm

Florida Inmates Convicted of Murder Walk Free Using Fake Court Order

This is getting to be a pattern in several states. What good are courts if the prisons cannot hold the prisoners. 

http://nypost.com/2013/10/18/cops-hunting-for-2-killers-freed-with-fake-casey-anthony-judge-signature/

Cops hunting for 2 killers freed with fake Casey Anthony judge signature
New York Post
By Associated Press
October 18, 2013 | 8:29am

Obama, Maybe Was Not Elected

Here's the howler!!! Yes, Eric Holder who is himself under investigation for lying to Congress is the one to investigate Obama. Hahaha. Lots of luck with that. Hahahahaha.

[from article]
"Holcomb, who has called on the Department of Justice to investigate the Clinton and Obama petitions, also responded to a report that the suspected fake Obama petition pages passed through the county voter registration office on days when the Republican member of the office was out."

http://www.southbendtribune.com/sbt-fake-signatures-may-mean-obama-didnt-actually-qualify-in-indiana-20111013,0,181597.story

Fake signatures may mean Obama didn't actually qualify in Indiana
Would '08 May ballot have been different?
By ERIN BLASKO Tribune Staff Writer
9:19 p.m. EDT, October 13, 2011

Software Allows Verifying Petition Signatures

[From article]
"Internet software that ensured precision and allowed him to avoid the chance of signatures being rejected on legal technicalities."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/petition-drives-in-maryland-go-high-tech/2011/07/08/gIQAdRQDDI_story.html

Web software helped keep immigrant-tuition foes’ petitions valid
By Michael Laris,
Published: July 13 2011
Washington Post