EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | James B. Reed
Organization : | Jaburg & Wilk, P.C.
Post Date : | 9/28/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7
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Comment : | Polling place Consolidation may mean that the Help America Vote Act requirements of one electronic voting booth per polling site may be inadequate for larger, consolidated polling sites. This would particularly be the case if there is a “woodwork effect,” resulting in more use of electronic voting equipment than projected. Voters, who, once at the polling site, may choose to use electronic voting equipment as opposed to standard voting equipment, may include: 1) Senior citizens who do not normally identify themselves as disabled; 2) Voters with disabilities who otherwise might have voted early or not at all, but now wish to use accessible voting machines; 3) Voters who have “dynamic” disabilities, such as A) disease leading to disability, either progressively or cyclically; B) disability that is primarily restrictive due to unpredictable episodes of pain; or C) cognitive disability; and 4) young, more electronic-savvy voters, who want to experience the novelty of electronic voting equipment.