I have no idea about all that. I know that it is ridiculously easy to become a notary in some states though. Fill out a form, take an oath, buy your pretty embossing seal, charge $4 a signature
I wonder, when my kids go to school should I become a notary so that I can notarize permission slip forms and things like that? I'd just have to tell the teachers that if that report card/detention notice/whatever doesn't have an embossed seal on it then it never made it to my hands no matter what my boys may claim

Of course I'd never really do such a thing, but I know that forging Mom or Dad's signature was quite common when I was in school!!