{"id":584,"date":"2004-08-31T19:30:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T19:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=584"},"modified":"2004-08-31T19:30:49","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T19:30:49","slug":"paper_trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"Paper Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

The controversy surrounding e-balloting will not not be a factor in Minnesota on Election Day. We are sticking with machine-scannable paper ballots. To accommodate voters with disabilities, every polling station will be equipped with a device that scans the ballot and puts the text on a touch-screen<\/a>. Voters can make their selection via touch-screen and, once the choices are confirmed, they are automatically transcribed to a regular paper ballot. A sip-and-puff input system is available for voters with mobility impairments and voters with visual impairments can make choices via audio cues. This seems like a good compromise between the security concerns of e-voting and the need to make voting accessible to everyone. I’m not sure if I’ll use it myself; sip-and-puff doesn’t work well for me. I do hope that the Secretary of State does some awareness building about these machines and that it encourages more people with disabilities to go to the polls. Absentee ballots are a fine alternative, but I think it’s important for people with disabilities to be seen voting alongside the rest of their communities. A lot of people have worked hard to increase accessibility at the polls. The least we can do is show up.
\nSomeone on Bush’s speechwriting staff must have a fondness for the absurd. “Catastrophic success<\/a>?” The hell? That’s a bit like saying we had to destroy the village to save it, isn’t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The controversy surrounding e-balloting will not not be a factor in Minnesota on Election Day. We are sticking with machine-scannable paper ballots. To accommodate voters with disabilities, every polling station will be equipped with a device that scans the ballot and puts the text on a touch-screen. Voters can make their selection via touch-screen and, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-584","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-9q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}