Touch Screens ARE NOT The Best Choice For Disabled Voters

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The author of this article, A.J. Devies - is a disability advocate from Florida.
"Disabled voters have been disenfranchised for years," noted Devies,
and under the Help America Vote Act, states and counties have been allowed to
purchase "accessible" touchscreen voting equipment that actually harms disabled voters.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004548.php

Touch Screens Are Not The Best Choice For Disabled Voters

By AJ Devies, Handicapped Voters of Volusia County
August 01, 2006

A key point has been lost in the various arguments for and against touch-screen voting machines. The spirit and intent of the accessible voting law are to allow every disabled person the opportunity to cast his or her privately and independently.1 The key word in the preceding sentence is “every.” It is not acceptable to accommodate some members of the disabled population and expect the rest of us to live with “business as usual.” That is discrimination, which is not legal.

Accommodating people with different disabilities requires great flexibility in a voting system.
What works for and is preferred by certain members of the blind and visually impaired community2 does not accommodate people with mobility or motor impairments.3 That is one specific shortcoming with touch screen machines. People with limited use of their hands and arms may not be able to use the touch screen machines. People with spinal cord injuries or similar disorders may require binary devices such as such as “sip-and-puff”. (Other binary devices include foot pedals, joy-sticks and gel pads.)

read more here, http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1595&Itemid=26


send this to your election officials, lawmakers or county commissioners if you are
still fighting touchscreen machines

[LA lady]

1. Opinion

I have MS and I have NO problem. My daughter goes with me to vote if I want her to and when I start to have problems, she can push it for me.

[Wilms]

2. Thanks for posting this. n/t