VC 40604 states you cannot charge a person for failure to appear if they haven't signed a notice to appear, so it's already written in the vehicle.
Failure of the officer to sign? I thought we were talking about failure of the arrested person to sign the citation.
The officer failed to obtain a signature from the arrested person per VC 40504(a).
If the officer does not really need the signature of the arrested person in question, what's to prevent officer from writing up tickets on people without their knowledge, keeping the original and throwing away the copy?
There's nothing to prevent the above from actually happening (that I can think of) and it sounds like a possible real scenario.
I can't find anything in the penal code or vehicle code that says a signature is not required in a notice to appear.

