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Blank Spaces in documents
A Notary should not notarize a document with blank spaces. If a notary notarizes a document with blank spaces, the signer or other party could fill in anything in those blank statements, thus changing the content of the document, and making the signers signature that was notarized meaningless, since they didn't sign the document in its final condition. Notarizing documents with blank spaces is a huge liability and should be avoided at all costs.