Unfortunately somebody has convinced some of the disability leadership that any kind of paper trail connected with computer voting is inherently "inaccessible". How one follows the other is beyond me.
How odd. I mean, a paper trail isn't of that much use, because even if the computer spits out a piece of paper that shows correctly how you voted, that doesn't guarantee it registered your vote in the same ways as shown on the piece of paper.
Still, a paper trail is better than no paper trail, and it doesn't make sense that a paper trail is "inaccessible." Unless "inaccessible" is a binary condition ... a piece of paper can't be read by a visually impaired person.
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Date: 2004-10-06 12:32 pm (UTC)How odd. I mean, a paper trail isn't of that much use, because even if the computer spits out a piece of paper that shows correctly how you voted, that doesn't guarantee it registered your vote in the same ways as shown on the piece of paper.
Still, a paper trail is better than no paper trail, and it doesn't make sense that a paper trail is "inaccessible." Unless "inaccessible" is a binary condition ... a piece of paper can't be read by a visually impaired person.