[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Electronic votiing

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 10:35 AM 17/11/2006, Eric Scheid wrote:
> 
>> Point taken on blind Braille readers ... however, who says the Braille 
>> isn't
>> going to be read at all when votes are counted? It would be trivial to 
>> take
>> the stack of manually counted vote slips and feed them through a Braille
>> reader to confirm that all have the same vote.
> 
> 
> Eric, given the point about the call centres asking for drivers licence 
> as a form of identification from a blind person, I think the answer is 
> that they would go in the 'what the crap is this?' basket, or be 
> considered a donkey vote UNLESS there were proper training of scruitineers.
> 
> Now since Braille is a language code of its own, granted it's English, 
> but not in the code accessible to those who see and have been trained in 
> it, that raises the similarity to ballots in multiple languages. Are all 
> ballots available in any language required by the voter? And if there is 
> an obscure language, say something from central Africa where many new 
> immigrants have come from, what happens to enable their voting? CALD is 
> really a challenge here. I heard the other day that there are over 150 
> different languages spoken at home in Dandenong!

why go to Africa...how many ballot papers are printed in any of the 
Australian Aboriginal languages...


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