Method of authenticating documents by either insertion of a facsimile of a person’s actual handwritten signature, typed name, mark, symbol, or code that is affixed electronically to the end of a document. Electronic signatures are subject to federal and state laws. Some state laws permit their use in place of a pen-and-ink signature. Electronic signatures are not designed to be secure.
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US: An electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a contract or record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record.