RE: [election-services] Defining a trusted voting process - one disabilities concern

["Simon Bain" <sibain@tendotzero.com>]

Ed.

As somebody who has MS I can only agree with your sentiment. These issues
though I would have thought are for the politicians to ponder, naval gaze
and ultimately probably maybe ignore.

The fact of secure voting processes should be open to all however before
this is possible a process must be put into place.

All the best
Simon
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<quote who="Ed Dodds">
> FWIW: The discussion I've seen in the disabilities community has been over
> the import of the paper receipt. What doesn't seem to be brought up is
> that
> a lot of polling places aren't accessible -- and even when they are, there
> isn't enough accessible transportation to get those with disabilities to
> the
> polls. While I praise the ideal of universally accessible polling places
> my
> cynicism says they and the paper ballot issue are currently
> (functionallly)
> being used as a red herring issue put out by those who don't want the
> disabilities community to seriously consider UUID voting by the net,
> phone,
> fax, ATM, IM, email, set top box, what have you -- and as a result -- FWD
> are currently unable to vote and would be for the foreseeable future -- if
> the transportation issue isn't met -- and there is no political will to do
> so -- because folks with disabilities can't vote for it. (Anyone want to
> ride on my vicious cycle? :-))
>
> Ed Dodds
>
>>I think paper is a red herring to placate a few Luddites. Far more
> important is the issue of intimidation, which applies to many systems
> including postal votes.
>
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