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Should this man get to keep his driver's license with the upside-down signature on it?

Man's signature offends DMV Office denies new driver's license 07/17/2003 Charles Weinstein's signature is more legible than many - it is just that it appears to be upside down. And this is a problem for the Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles, which informed Weinstein on Monday that his signature was 'unacceptable.' Weinstein said a clerk told him he would not get a new driver's license until he agreed to sign it 'right.' Weinstein, 45, of Glasgow, has refused, saying it should be up to him, not the DMV, to decide how he writes his name. He said he trained himself to write his name in this unusual way, working right-side up, as a way to make his mark unique. He said he has been signing his name this way for more than eight years on all official papers, checks, credit cards - even his old driver's license. It was never a major problem until this week, he said, when he went to the DMV office on Airport Road to change his address. Weinstein said a window clerk told him to 'stop fooling around and sign it right.' When he insisted that what he wrote was his valid, legal signature, Weinstein said the clerk accused him of being a troublemaker and threw him out. He said the DMV did not issue him a new license and refused to give him back his old one...

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