[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: The Age - article: 'Victoria puts blind faith in electronic voting'

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:15 PM 14/11/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
>How have blind people voted up till now?  What's wrong with braille
>ballots?

With assistants, someone marking the ballot for them. And that is the 
general objection, that they couldn't complete a secret ballot. At 
least that's what I think I was told by Tony Clark at Vision 
Australia when he did a paper on accessible voting at a conference 
about democratic participation. Howard may different info from a 
scrutineer's view.


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