[WSBARP] Notary rulemaking update

[Bickel, Dwight]

I think there are many who are confusing "electronic" with "remote." The comments about the notary being in other states, and about how electronic will increase the risk of forgery and reduce the notary's ability to determine possible duress and incompetency, relate to remote notary, not electronic notary.

Electronic becomes authorized in July. That allows the notary to use an acknowledgment certificate that is done on the computer, not on paper. We already have authority for the document to be digital, for the signature to be digital and for the recording to be done electronically (without paper). However, nothing in the present statutory change allows the notary to be in a different place than the person who must personally appear before the notary to acknowledge signing that document.

Oh, we will go there with future legislation (planned next session), but not today.
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