Blind Voters Charge Privacy Violation
Two Florida voters said that their privacy during voting was violated because they were forced to speak their ballot choices aloud to election staff person who then filled out an optical scan ballot. The voting location had no blind assessable voting technology, which is required by 2006. Although there are tactile ballots available and in current use in the State of Rhode Island and an inexpensive method offered earlier during the election year by a resident of Florida, neither option is available because state certification is required before they could be made available to visually impaired voters.
St. Petersburg blind voters say privacy violated when voting, Channel 19, HDTV Florida, November 8, 2004
