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. C. Under the section that requires the voting system to be accessible to the blind voter is the requirement for the audio system to provide information via recorded human speech rather than synthesized speech because most users prefer real speech over synthesized speech. Many blind people use the program “Jaws” on their computers and are familiar to the synthesized voice. If a voter wants to control the rate of speech a human voice will sound more like the chipmunks when accelerated, whereas the synthesized voice goes faster. SUGGESTION: I encourage more research on this requirement. [Statements submitted at EAC public hearing, August 23, 2005, Denver]