Friday, May 14, 2010

CBC News - Saskatchewan - Blind man wants better voting tools

CBC News - Saskatchewan - Blind man wants better voting tools

A Saskatoon man is calling for a better system to allow people with a visual impairment to vote with certainty and secrecy, conditions he says are currently lacking at provincial election time.

Robin East, who is legally blind, says he has only two options to mark a ballot: have someone help him, or insert his ballot into a sleeve that has braille on it, and hope his mark is correctly aligned.

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