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| | Name : | Jim Dickson | Organization : | American Assoc. of People With Disabilities (AAPD) | Post Date : | 9/30/2005 |
| Section : | 2.2.7 | Page no. : | | Line no.: | | 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. | |
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