[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Electronic votiing

[Craig Sanders]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 02:17:28AM -0800, David Goldstein wrote:
> Craig,
> 
> I see you're happy to enable discrimination to continue. 

why don't you ask me if i'm still beating my wife?

it's not about discrimination, it's about secure voting.

having assistants to help them vote hardly qualifies as discrimination.
discrimination would be if blind people were banned from voting.

> I'm also very happy to see we have governments that are more
> enlightened than you are, and others, and have seen the importance of


it's also not about enlightenment - it's about using a very PC issue
to sneak in easily corruptible e-voting machines under the guise of
avoiding embarassment for blind voters.

it's depressing to see that there are some people stupid enough to be
sucked in by it.


> enabling people who are blind and vision impaired to be able to vote
> with the same right to privacy as sighted people.

you know, disabilities inherently mean that there are differences in
the way some things are done. why not demand the "right to walk" for
paraplegics? the fact that they can't actually walk is irrelevant, it's
an outrageous discrimination that they're denied the right to walk.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)