[dbaust] Fw: National: Telephone assisted voting at the Federal election - learn more at our teleconference information sessions!

From: "Heather Lawson" <lawsonhj@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dbaust@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:07:34 +1000

for your information

From: Jessica Zammit 
To: Jessica Zammit 
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 9:44 AM
Subject: National: Telephone assisted voting at the Federal election - learn 
more at our teleconference information sessions!

Hi everyone, 

We are pleased to announce that there will be telephone assisted voting offered 
for this year's Federal election. In case you missed the information, you can 
have a read of the information here.

Blind Citizens Australia, Vision Australia, Australian Blindness Forum and the 
Australian Human Rights Commission has been working with the Australian 
Electoral Commission to ensure that as many people who are blind or vision 
impaired as possible find out about telephone assisted voting at this year's 
election and how it works. There will be lots of information coming out in the 
next month so keep an ear out! This includes work by Vision Australia and the 
Australian Blindness Forum (which acts as a peak for blindness service 
providers) to spread the word to clients of their services. 

To help spread the word about telephone assisted voting, Blind Citizens 
Australia has organised a number of teleconferences on behalf of the AEC. These 
will be short 30-45 minute teleconference style information sessions hosted by 
an AEC representatvie which will begin with a short presentation of what to 
expect if you choose to cast your vote by telephone, followed by time for 
questions. There are a number of dates in July 2013 in both business and after 
hours. The first three conferences will be held on Wednesday 3 July at 5.00pm, 
Thursday 4 July at 7.00pm and Wednesday 17 July at 10.00am. Other 
teleconference dates will also be released based on interest. 

To register for a teleconference, please call the National Office on 1800 033 
660 or email bca@xxxxxxxxxx with the subject line "Accessible voting 
teleconference". Please include your full name, contact phone number with area 
code, state and which teleconference you would like to join. You will then 
receive a confirmation email with the teleconference dial in details. 

Please promote these teleconferences far and wide throughout your networks so 
that we can maximise the number of people who know that telephone voting is 
available and who may choose to cast their vote this way!

Kind regards,

Jessica Zammit
National Policy Officer
Blind Citizens Australia
Ross House, Level 3, 247-251 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000 

Phone:  03 9654 1400 
Mobile:  0437 355 985 
Fax:       03 9650 3200 
Toll free:1800 033 660 
Web: www.bca.org.au 

ABN: 90 006 985 226 

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[dbaust] Fw: National: Telephone assisted voting at the Federal election - learn more at our teleconference information sessions!

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