Originally Posted By: Kaboomba
Originally Posted By: bigmike
When you all that agree with this line of thinking fund a way for visually impaired to vote independently, let us know! Then I might be on board for forced physical location voting.
Not to brag, but it took me only 0.00453 seconds to think of "Braille"!!
I cannot, however, think of any valid reasons why inky voter-thumbs would be a bad thing.
Last election, there was a woman in Milwaukee who showed up to her local polling place in the evening and was told, "I'm sorry, you have already voted. Good bye!" Needless to say, she had NOT already voted.
What if voters were required to vote in person, and had to ink their thumbs and then put their thumb-print RIGHT ON A PAPER BALLOT while observed by polling personnell before going into the booth?
In that case, I would think that the perp who stole the Milwaukee woman's vote would be fearful of potentially doing hard time!
And it took me less than that to think that not every blind or visually impaired person knows braille.
Then there is the topic of why are you excluding people that do not know braille. How about forcing the entire population to know some arbitrary concept in order to vote? Is the government prepared to teach people braille, have people at voter locations that can provide braille support, and how are they going to actually do the voting process - by answering their vote in braille?
I digress. Too many issues will arise based upon this decision.
Obviously, you bypassed the funding part of the question. There exists technology to assist people in order to vote independently, but it requires a great deal of money. You are asking people typical of fixed income to take public transportation, which may require several hours, rely on technology that may or may not exist at their voting location and may not work correctly, in order to appease you.
I work as a consultant with people that have disabilities, and I realize that you accounted for physical disabilities in one of your posts, but most have no clue as to what they are wanting/demanding take place.
Requiring thumb prints on ballots would take away the privacy of the voter. This goes against the entire voting process, could endanger lives, and removes government by the people and replaces it with government by John Smith, Jane Doe, etc.
No thanks. Maybe that kind of thinking should stay in the theocracies, dictatorships, and other 3rd world countries.
Originally Posted By: bigmike
When you all that agree with this line of thinking fund a way for visually impaired to vote independently, let us know! Then I might be on board for forced physical location voting.
Not to brag, but it took me only 0.00453 seconds to think of "Braille"!!
I cannot, however, think of any valid reasons why inky voter-thumbs would be a bad thing.
Last election, there was a woman in Milwaukee who showed up to her local polling place in the evening and was told, "I'm sorry, you have already voted. Good bye!" Needless to say, she had NOT already voted.
What if voters were required to vote in person, and had to ink their thumbs and then put their thumb-print RIGHT ON A PAPER BALLOT while observed by polling personnell before going into the booth?
In that case, I would think that the perp who stole the Milwaukee woman's vote would be fearful of potentially doing hard time!
And it took me less than that to think that not every blind or visually impaired person knows braille.
Then there is the topic of why are you excluding people that do not know braille. How about forcing the entire population to know some arbitrary concept in order to vote? Is the government prepared to teach people braille, have people at voter locations that can provide braille support, and how are they going to actually do the voting process - by answering their vote in braille?
I digress. Too many issues will arise based upon this decision.
Obviously, you bypassed the funding part of the question. There exists technology to assist people in order to vote independently, but it requires a great deal of money. You are asking people typical of fixed income to take public transportation, which may require several hours, rely on technology that may or may not exist at their voting location and may not work correctly, in order to appease you.
I work as a consultant with people that have disabilities, and I realize that you accounted for physical disabilities in one of your posts, but most have no clue as to what they are wanting/demanding take place.
Requiring thumb prints on ballots would take away the privacy of the voter. This goes against the entire voting process, could endanger lives, and removes government by the people and replaces it with government by John Smith, Jane Doe, etc.
No thanks. Maybe that kind of thinking should stay in the theocracies, dictatorships, and other 3rd world countries.
