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| | Name : | Charles H. Crawford | Organization : | N/A | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Section : | 2.2.7 | Page no. : | | Line no.: | | Comment : | I am writing to both thank you for your previous efforts to
gain an accessible voting experience for those of us with
disabilities and your current effort to secure the full range of
voting access and privileges for all people with disabilities
irrespective of their restrictions. Thanks so much and let us
move forward.
I have voted in every election since I was eligible to do so
and only within the last two elections was I sure that my votes
were cast for candidates for whom I had voted. This is because
I never had usable vision for reading the ballots and the voting
was not accessible to me save for the last two elections where I
had the choices read by the voting machine.
I know that others have written eloquent testimony on this
topic, however permit me to simply say that there is no
comparison to properly express the sheer joy and pride a voter
feels knowing what they have done and using the equipment to do
it. Yes, combining my intellectual capacity to determine choices
and accessible technology to provide the opportunity to take
charge of my vote has surely altered my experience of our
democracy from observer to participant. There is no greater
testimony to the effectiveness of the democratic experience then
to actually participate in it!
There is so much more that I could say, but I would need
many pages and is it not best just to say thanks to those who
have believed enough in our democracy to empower all of us to
participate? God bless you and God bless the U.S.A. | |
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