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

[Joel Deutsch]

I just kinda lose it from time to time. I don't want to seem ungenerous to 
writers who crank out stuff like this, because everyone's got a right to 
learn, and working under deadline will bring out all the bad writing that 
isn't already filtered by a developed literate consciousness. But then the 
editor is supposed to work with the material and teach the writer something 
in the process. The editor's supposed to ask "third party assistance? What 
did you mean by that?" And the writer explains, and then the editor says how 
about finding a way to say that, then, okay? And the writer learns to turn 
off his or her auto pilot. and think about the substance of what they mean 
and how they express it. Jeez, is that too much work to expect from f 
professionals?As Dylan says in an entirely different context, everybody's 
got to wonder what's the matter with this cruel world today.

 Oh, well. I'm happy to be a little entertaining in my annoyance. :-)
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Good stuff.

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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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From: "Steve Pattison" <srp at internode.on.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 4:18 AM
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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