Reply #50: Because until the whistle-blowers came forth recently,

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and various Attorneys-General began to investigate the use of notaries in their state, this would have looked like a perfectly innocuous bill. It was originated, by the way, in 2005, before MERS even began. And until very recently, there would have been very little reason for the states NOT to trust each other's notary public seals. In fact, it is done routinely.