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Republican leading inquiry into Biden’s autopen use has digitally signed letters
(www.theguardian.com)
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So I had to look up what an "autopen" is.
The US president not only has basically dictatorial powers to create laws (call them executive orders or whatever, they're still laws), he can delegate the actual signing to someone else by a device that imitates signatures. So basically the idea of the president can create laws.
How was that ever a functional country ....
It's just a digital signature from what I am understanding. The same thing accepted by the federal governments executive branch for every IRS tax form I've submitted since 2006 when I started working.
If they believe a digital signature doesn't count, the executive branch should return all taxes paid with digital signatures immediately and ask we resubmit them come April when taxes are do again.
Edit: oh, also near all student loans are signed digitally, so they need to void those all as well.