"Mr. Bly acknowledged his signature before a Florida notary and the instrument was e-filed and e-recorded a year after the first assignment   ...in a deposition taken in another case, Bly indicated that his signature was simply scanned onto documents and then notarized as an original and recorded. "

I understand the notary notarizing a scanned signature, by Mr. Bly appearing before the notary and acknowledging the signature is his.

What scares me:  The routine practice of scanning signatures into documents and e-filing.  An example comes to mind:  In a state where a signature, fingerprint and Journal is not required to be kept by a notary public:  100 mortgage releases prepared by dropping data into a master release form that already contains scanned signatures and notarization blocks, which were scanned into the master document by a Servicing Clerk (not signer or notary) and then e-recorded by a Servicing Clerk.  Speeds up the process and cuts costs for the lender, but it sure eliminates the reliability of each individual e-recorded document. I miss the old days of here's the paper with wet signatures, check the handwriting for fraud versus today's world of mass production documents.