Hi
This is a question for those US citizen who voted in states where internet
or computer voting was used. How accessible was it for people with visual
impairment of any type? what other disabilities? A report on IRD (French TV
station was saying that Election Quebec is considering this system.
from what I saw the physical set up is very high, and I can not see how
voice technologies can be added to it, Anyone here who had experience
in the last USA election?
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From: "Jim Davis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 10:42 PM
Subject: Clarification: Concept of prior post is: More Visibility & ....
> ... -integration in the public polling place.
>
> I forgot to mention, that this is politically underpinned, by the
> thought that inaccessible Polling Places, or unusable voting systems (or
> confusing ballots that get botched & nullify one's vote).... can force
> unnecessarily massive numbers of us into Absentee Voting, which is to
> say, into the invisibility of segregated (at home) voting.
>
> One shoud have asa fundamental human right, the unobstructed option to
> vote in the same place there everyone else votes. Integrated voting.
> The neighborhood Polling Place the most sacred public space of
> democracy, and if you're the only kind of voter missing, you are the
> only kind of voter being made politically invisible, "out of sight, out
> of mind". If you hae never voted in that great public space, you may
> not fully apreciate what all goes on there. The simple act of voting is
> not all that goes on there.
>
> So, the whole point of my inquiry, is looking to reduce our
> not-by-choice over-reliance on Absentee / Mail ballotting, for another
> step towards equality and visibility.
>
> Jim Davis
>
> PS: Again, please DON'T clog the list with responses: Please do send the
> info requested in my fist "Voting" post -- Directly to me at
> [log in to unmask]
> Thanks.
>
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