What is natural variation?
• No one signs the same way twice. • Writing is like breathing, and automatic. Because we are not machines, we incorporate our own unique formations into our writing style as time goes on. It is in these unique features and formations that are traceable to each individual that other individuals are unable to duplicate or repeat, nor are we able to successfully able to duplicate every feature and formation another person writes either. • Additionally, external factors such as age, illness, intoxication, writing position, writing instrument, and care of execution may affect a person’s writing. • It is through these unique features and formations in a person’s handwriting that allows a competent document examiner to identify or eliminate an individual as the author of a questioned document.
