[untrained skeptic]

Signing the ticket is for identification purposes. There actually is a significant problem with people using a fake ID with somone else's valid identification. The requirement of the signature is to protect innocent people from being stuck with other people's fines.

[5Madman2]

See Post 30.

It may answer other questions you may have

[monday]

"Signing the ticket is for identification purposes. There actually is a significant problem with people using a fake ID with somone else's valid identification. The requirement of the signature is to protect innocent people from being stuck with other people's fines."

If they have a fake ID thats good enough to fool the cops, then a signature isn't going to help. Signatures are easy to forge. Better to take a photo of the perp at the time of the violation.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Signing the ticket is for identification purposes. There actually is a significant problem with people using a fake ID with somone else's valid identification. The requirement of the signature is to protect innocent people from being stuck with other people's fines.

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How does making someone scribble help this? Is the cop really comparing signatures? I've never seen that in my (ahem) several speeding tickets (many of which I beat in court due to "in-cop-etence").