[LINK] New technology delivers secret vote to blind

[Adam Todd]

What the Federal Government finally worked out that Braille can be 
presented electronically, or even simpler, on paper?

At 01:00 PM 15/08/2007, Howard Lowndes wrote:
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>When does someone get to cast the technical measure over this technology?
></hfl>
>
>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/15/2005708.htm?section=justin
>
>New technology has been unveiled which will allow blind and 
>vision-impaired people to cast a secret vote at the next federal 
>election for the first time.
>
>The Australian-designed equipment will be installed in 29 locations 
>around the country and thousands of voters are expected to use it.
>
>The Australian Electoral Commission's Judy Birkenhead says there was 
>high demand for a way to cast an independent vote.
>
>"It works by replacing the ballot paper with a computer screen and 
>the people can put their preferences into that ballot paper using a 
>telephone-style keypad, then an encoded ballot paper prints [that] 
>out, and that's what goes into the ballot box," she said.
>
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