Blind, Disabled Voters Finally Call for 'Immediate Ban' on DRE/Touch-Screen Voting!

Two Different Statements from Civil Rights Leaders Call for Discontinuation of Insecure, Unverifiable, Disenfranchising DRE/Touch-Screen Voting Technology

After years of DRE-supporters -- and those who support the disgraced Bob Ney's Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 -- having used the canard that blind and disabled voters must use DREs to vote privately and independently, a number of leaders in the disabilities community are finally speaking up against their having been used as a wedge to force the nationwide implementation of such disenfranchising, dangerous voting technology! Full Story »

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Sydney LaCour
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by Sydney LaCour - Sep. 30, 2009

Again, this is a topic not touched upon in mainstream news because it does not seem to directly effect the community at large. but if analyzed more deeply, one would realize that the use or ban of "touch screen" voting machines affects the entire community of voters. something that simplifies a task for part of the community completely disenfranchises another part. For that reason alone it arise attention and evokes interest while being pertinent to a massive audience. Therefore yes it is quality journalism.

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