EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Jim Dickson
Organization : | American Assoc. of People With Disabilities (AAPD)
Post Date : | 9/30/2005
Section Comments
Section : | 2.2.7
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Comment : | The Rights Task Force suggests the following recommendations to be included in the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) Access Standards, specifically Section 2.2.7, and the "Human Factors" section which deals with accessibility, accuracy, and secrecy in the voting process: 2. There are several sections of the proposed VVSG which provide a lesser level of access to voters with partial vision and manual dexterity disabilities than the previous Federal Election Commission (FEC) 2002 Voting System Standards (VSS). The CCD Rights Task Force proposes that there be equal access to paper ballots for voters with all types of vision disabilities (blindness and low vision) when paper ballots are used as an official vote record; that equal access and secrecy is ensured for voters with motor and hand disabilities when the voting process includes submitting a paper ballot that is an official vote record; and that privacy is maintained for voters who use large print output on paper ballots used as an official vote record.