[Blindtlk] Signing Your Name.

[Ray Foret Jr]

To speak frankly, your husband is absolutely as wrong as can be.  He needs to learn to sign his name.  I think it's highly irresponsible of any blind person to not at the very least know how to sign one's name.  Sounds to me like he's using his blindness as an excuse not to be responsible.  Sorry if this hurts your feelings; but, I think that we need to speak both openly and honestly with each other about these things.  After all, if we can't be honest with each other, how can we expect anybody else to be honest with us?


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On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Mary Mc Gee wrote:

> Dear Fellow Federationists;
> 
>            I need some original thinking here, I believe.  It's tax time
> and, as you know, when you're married, sometimes you choose to file a joint
> return, which both you and your spouse must sign.  I have no problem doing
> this; I'm the one who prepares the thing with the Schedules, etc.  My
> husband, who is totally blind, can't sign his name legibly.  (It's debatable
> whether my signature is legible.)  Anyway, last year the IRS sent the return
> back saying the "spouse's signature is not authentic".  The IRS accepted
> mine but not his.  He refuses to use one of those signature guides or
> anything else like that.  He writes at an angle and the letters overlap.  He
> says he shouldn't have to know how to sign his name.  I disagree.  Every
> year at tax time we argue about this because he feels, being blind, he
> shouldn't be expected to know how to make a legible signature.  I argue
> that, since the majority of people working for the government are sighted
> and the signature is your verification, you need to sign government
> documents.  
> 
>            I guess my question is two-fold:
> 
> 1.  Does anyone have any suggestions with respect to convincing him that he
> needs to make a signature?
> 
> 2.  Has anyone else had a document returned, when a blind person signed it
> and the government refused to accept the signature?
> 
>            Last near, I took the think to Sen. Harkin's office and
> explained the problem.  I signed release, they took over and sent the return
> to the IRS, and I never heard another word till our refund check came.
> 
>            Thanks for your input.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Mary L. McGee
> 
> 
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