[vicsireland] Re: Voting and the vision impaired!
- From: "Tim Culhane" <tim.culhane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:42:57 +0100
Hi Paul,
As far as I know electronic voting is still up in the air.
There was a report released a couple of weeks ago, which seemed to say that
the system was unworkable as it stood.
Main concern seems to be the unreliability of the software running on the
machines, and the lack of a proper paper trail which could be used in a
vote audit.
Naturally the government stressed the good bits out of this report, and the
opposition used it to slam the whole project.
I reckon electronic voting won't be used next year, and probably not for a
while to come.
Tim
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Subject: [vicsireland] Voting and the vision impaired!
Hi All,
As it looks like there will be a general election next year I was just
wondering where are we the vision impaired this time round in relation to
our ability to cast our votes in the booths provided?. I just wonder if
anyone in VICs has been in touch with the people who arrange all this. It
is now the 21st century and it seems there isn't a word on sorting out
this situation of eletronic voting and giving us proper access to vote in
private.
I would like to hear what others think about this situation as it stands at
the moment.
Regards,
Paul.
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