[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Electronic votiing

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:40 AM 17/11/2006, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>>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...

Good point. But not many indigenous languages are written, are they? 
Isn't that the point of the audio collection projects that have been 
undertaken to save them?

Can anyone say, perhaps the scrutineers in the group, if there are 
any accommodations for non-readers of any language, even English?

Jan


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