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From: Julius Charles Serrano
Date: Sep 8, 2013 8:34PM

Hi everyone.

I just want to get your thoughts on voting and its accessibility,
particularly in terms of the following points:

1. I have talked to a handful of blind people and they prefer an online
voting system because it lets them vote independently and privately.
What are your thoughts on this?
2. A counter-statement to this is that although an online voting system
would increase the general accessibility of elections to some people,
the security of the voting system itself would always be a concern,
generally because it is on the Internet. Your thoughts?
3. Apart from online voting, what do you think are other possible
options that would make voting more accessible to blind people and
people with other types of disabilities?

Thanks very much for reading this and for any comment you may have.

Julius