EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Jill LaVine
Organization : | Registrar of Voters, County of Sacramento
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7
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Comment : | THE VOTING PROCESS SHALL PRESERVE THE SECRECY OF THE BALLOT. A. No voting method should single out a voter, either while they are voting or after their ballot is cast. The requirement that all voting stations using paper ballots should make provisions for voters with poor reading vision suggests that a ballot with large print would be an option for a voter with visual disabilities. While it is addressed in a later section that large-print paper ballots unavoidably identifies the accessibility feature used by a voter, I am concerned that the voter’s right to privacy and a secret ballot have been compromised. SUGGESTION: I agree that the instructions should be available in large print; I feel that a magnifying glass of good quality will be the better option to preserve the secrecy of the ballot. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, August 23, 2005, Denver]