This isn't an artifact of a fax, or a copy distortion; if that were true, all 'e' elements would be equally misplaced. These character drifts must necessarily exist in the original document. Similar drifts exist throughout, and for other letters.
I wanted to say a word about the lefties' assertion that character drifts are indications of a typewriter. I just got rid of an Epson inkjet because it did exactly the same thing -- couldn't get any lines straight not within a word or without. So a slippery carriage does not a typewriter make. That's all. Thanks for a great analysis all.
Or look at this obvious fake that I created in Photoshop. Once you rotate the text to get the slant from the forged documents, you also get character drift. I can assure that this document was never printed and was not from 1972. We've been assuming this is a direct copy of a Word document, but a forger could easily have done everything seen in the memos using photoshop, even the letter blurring and dots on the page that imply this was photocopied. 