[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Electronic votiing

[David Goldstein]

Jan,
Braille was developed by a Frenchman, Louis Braille. The issue though could be the same as Internationalised Domain Names. I'm not sure how non-Roman (?) characters are dealt with.
David

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From: Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au>
To: LINK <link at anu.edu.au>
Sent: Friday, 17 November, 2006 11:11:10 AM
Subject: Re: [LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Electronic votiing



> 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!


Jan


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