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Name :   Jim Dickson
Organization :   American Assoc. of People With Disabilities (AAPD)
Post Date :   9/30/2005

Section Comments
Section :  2.2.7
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Comment :  The Rights Task Force suggests the following recommendations to be  
included in the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) Access  
Standards, specifically Section 2.2.7, and the "Human Factors" section  
which deals with accessibility, accuracy, and secrecy in the voting  
process:

2.      There are several sections of the proposed VVSG which provide a  
lesser level of access to voters with partial vision and manual dexterity  
disabilities than the previous Federal Election Commission (FEC) 2002  
Voting System Standards (VSS).  The CCD Rights Task Force proposes that  
there be equal access to paper ballots for voters with all types of vision  
disabilities (blindness and low vision) when paper ballots are used as an  
official vote record; that equal access and secrecy is ensured for voters  
with motor and hand disabilities when the voting process includes  
submitting a paper ballot that is an official vote record; and that  
privacy is maintained for voters who use large print output on paper  
ballots used as an official vote record.