Visually Impaired Voters Use New Ballot Marking Technology from ES&S, AutoMARK

["Pete Klammer" <pklammer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is at least a glimmer of hope, maybe even more, that a
voting-equipment vendor or two might be seeing the light ...

http://www.essvote.com/index.php?section=press_item&press_id=85

"East Lansing, Mich., April 24, 2004 - More than 70 visually impaired voters
used breakthrough ballot marking technology from Election Systems &
Software, Inc. (ES&S) and AutoMARK Technical Systems (ATS), LLC, formerly
Vogue Election Systems, today to select members of the Elected Operators
Committee of the Business Enterprise Program. The device, called the ES&S
AutoMARK, allows voters to mark ballots privately and independently when
using an optical scan voting system. The Michigan Council of the Blind and
Visually Impaired, an advocacy group with around 300 members statewide,
invited ES&S and ATS to conduct the election using the ES&S AutoMARK to
demonstrate the new technology."

Clearly, if voters demand ballot-marking technology, it can be had.

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Pete Klammer / ACM(1970), IEEE, ICCP(CCP), NSPE(PE), NACSE(NSNE)
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