EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Rebecca Mercuri
Organization : | Notable Software, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 3
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Comment : | Certainly there is a need for a range of abilities and disabilities to be addressed by balloting systems, but to expect that all voters will satisfactorily address their individual needs using the same equipment poses a design constraint that has never been achieved by any application at this level of complexity. The amount of time required to use such devices in actual polling place environments has not been appropriately addressed by the VVSG. Nor does the VVSG provide any solution to accessibility for the millions of disabled voters who are unable to get to the polls but who would like to vote privately via absentee ballots. Universality may be more readily (and perhaps also more effectively) accomplished through disparate but equivalently effective assistive voting devices, which are not accommodated by the current structure of the accessibility and usability aspects of the VVSG.