{"id":1279,"date":"2006-07-19T20:16:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2006-07-19T20:16:02","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T20:16:02","slug":"secret_ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1279","title":{"rendered":"Secret Ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an opportunity to observe a demonstration of the assistive voting devices that are scheduled to be deployed around Hennepin County in time for the September primary elections.  Unlike other, more notorious electronic voting machines<\/A>, this model<\/A> still uses a paper ballot; the ballot is fed into the machine and marks it up according to the voter’s choices.  The device should be particularly helpful to voters with visual impairments, as it allows users to magnify the ballot, display it in high contrast, or have the ballot read to them through a pair of headphones.  I only hope that the election judges receive adequate training on how to help voters use the thing.  Not to stereotype election judges, but I’m imagining some nice old lady trying to show someone how to use the device and getting completely befuddled in the process. <\/DIV>
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I probably won’t be using the device, as the only alternative means of input is with a sip-and-puff device, which doesn’t really work for me.  While I know I can always request assistance from two election judges, I usually employ my nurse as a scribe.  After all, my politics are hardly a secret to anyone.  <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an opportunity to observe a demonstration of the assistive voting devices that are scheduled to be deployed around Hennepin County in time for the September primary elections.  Unlike other, more notorious electronic voting machines, this model still uses a paper ballot; the ballot is fed into the machine and marks it up according […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-kD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}