On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Kelly Pierce wrote:
> Apparently, more than accessible voting machines are needed to vote
> independently.  Even if a court orders the purchase of accessible voting
> machines, the local municipality can turn around and say we are not going
> to use them because blind people and staff need to be trained and we are
> not going to train them.

I don't know about your voting places but where I live each voting place
had a booth that had headphones attached to the electronic voting
computer.  I let it read the ballot to me.  It helped to hear what I was
having a hard time reading.

Later,
Steven


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