[LINK] Fwd: vip-l: Electoral Commission Seeking Sydney-based people for user testing [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Tom Worthington]

At 10:31 AM 5/04/2007, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>This was sent to a list for people with vision impairments. ...
>
>>The Australian Electoral Commission is currently undertaking a 
>>limited trial of accessible Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) for 
>>the upcoming federal election. We are currently looking for Testers 
>>in Sydney to assist us in evaluating the software providing 
>>feedback on the usability of the software. ...

The AEC seem to be leaving things a bit late. Gary Nairn, the Special 
Minister Of State, said the electronic voting systems must be ready 
for use by 4 August 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2007/03/report-on-acs-canberra-branch.html>.

Also there seems to be no word on the second electronic voting system 
to be used by Defence personnel.



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