Mumbai, July 8, 2011 Braille in voting machines Staff Reporter Share · print · T+
The Maharashtra State Election Commission on Thursday announced that each of the over 62, 000 electronic voting machines (EVMs) to be used in the upcoming local-body polls in the State would be equipped with Braille. This is one of the features among the disabled-friendly initiatives rolled out by the Commission. State Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayana said ramps at polling stations would be made user-friendly after complaints of voters facing great difficulty using the ramps were reported by many organisations in the previous polls. The Commission is also mulling over the idea of setting up polling kiosks at hospitals and other institutions and offering the facility of e-voting so as to enable aged persons, patients in hospitals and prisoners to exercise their right to vote. Source: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/article2209450.ece Comments to : [email protected] Copyright © 2011, The Hindu Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
