[LINK] Victoria the first to cast e-vote in a state election

[Jan Whitaker]

At 03:19 PM 14/11/2006, Brendan Scott wrote:
>I don't understand why blind people's ballots should be subject to 
>fewer safeguards than everyone else's.

As Howard said, Braille is not the universal that everyone thinks it 
is. Many people who lose their sight late in life don't bother to 
learn. Audio formats are much more pervasive than they used to be. 
And now that text to speech is easy, that is often the transfer 
format rather than Braille.

Jan


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