[gui-talk] Fwd: Article: Secret voting underway for blind people

[Joel Deutsch]

Secret voting  for blind people? You mean there are blind candidates running 
for various offices across the country and some secret political 
organization is conducting its own unauthorized and clandestine voting at 
unmarked polling places known only to those in the secret society? Wow. Wait 
until the conspiracy theorist get hold of this one. Who are the blind 
candidates, and what offices are they running for?

And third party assistance is no longer required? I've voted with the help 
of a poll worker, and there were just the two of us in the booth. Who's the 
second party? A guide dog? I know. In this image, the ballot, or possibly 
the whole system of ballot and booth , and the designers of that 
system,constitute the "second party." Yeah, right. This writer must be 
thoughtlessly extrapolating from a business and/or software background. A 
literate editor could have kept this one from happening. But the paradigm is 
different. Reminds me of the doctor who, when I asked him an astute question 
about the result of my CT scan, remarked that I seemed to be a "data driven" 
person. Chalk squealing across the blackboard of clear language and thought.
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Subject: [gui-talk] Fwd: Article: Secret voting underway for blind people


From: vip-l at softspeak.com.au
To: aebc at blindcanadians.ca

Secret voting underway for blind people

NineMSN.com, Australia, November 12, 2007

Voting for people who are blind and vision-impaired is now underway at 29
locations across the country.

Early voting began on Monday with polling booths now open for people unable
to vote on November 24.

For the first time, electronic voting machines are being used to cast a
secret vote.

Previously, blind and vision-impaired voters needed the help of a third
party when casting their vote on election day.

Electoral Commissioner Ian Campbell says voters are able to have a practice
session on the machine before they record their actual vote and a polling
official will explain how the machine works.

The new system gives the voter instructions through headphones and responses
are then made on a keypad.

The vote is then printed in code and placed in an envelope before being
placed in the ballot box.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=321898
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