This is a thin reed. It is the easiest thing in the world to write your signature on a piece of paper, scan it, and extract it as a image file. Then, for computer-generated documents, it is easy to paste in as required.
If this "dropout" letter was composed not as an official document, but on some other computer system (in accordance with the Hatch Act), then he might have had to manually sign it for lack of access to the paste-in.
For a guy who is practically reduced to creeping, it may have been a major effort to produce a legible specimen anyway. I have had problems maintaining the appearance of my own signature when I have to write it under cramped circumstances. It can go to hell, if your motor reflexes are impaired.
This is a thin reed. It is the easiest thing in the world to write your signature on a piece of paper, scan it, and extract it as a image file. Then, for computer-generated documents, it is easy to paste in as required.
If this "dropout" letter was composed not as an official document, but on some other computer system (in accordance with the Hatch Act), then he might have had to manually sign it for lack of access to the paste-in.
For a guy who is practically reduced to creeping, it may have been a major effort to produce a legible specimen anyway. I have had problems maintaining the appearance of my own signature when I have to write it under cramped circumstances. It can go to hell, if your motor reflexes are impaired.