[nfbmi-talk] Voting System Vendor Fair

Christine Boone christineboone2 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 15:49:37 UTC 2014


Mark, glad you will be there.  As most list readers know, we did have one of the newly proposed accessible voting systems at the our 2013 NFBMI state convention, and learned that it fell shorty in many of the aspects mentioned by JJ in his post.  

Mark I know that you will do an excellent job of communicating what is needed, and at scoping out the lay of the land for us.  

Warmly,
Christine
  
On Mar 6, 2014, at 4:38 PM, J.J. Meddaugh <jj at bestmidi.com> wrote:

> Oh man, I won't be able to do this. It would be great to get some of our tech-minded members     here to provide some honest feedback. For me, a new system needs to be responsive to keypresses, provide clear speech, have the ability to turn off the screen, and a way to increase the speech rate. Basically, the Automark does just about everything right and this is the message I would convey. It's unfortunate these machines aren't being made anymore.
> Another consideration is braille display support for the deaf blind, something the current systems don't offer but I believe some new ones may?
> Of course there's other disabilities to consider which are outside the scope of our organization.
> 
> Best regards,
> J.J.
> 
> On 3/5/2014 2:23 PM, Mark Eagle wrote:
>> The Michigan Bureau of Election has scheduled a Voting System Vendor Fair for Friday, March 21 at
>> the Lansing Center.
>> If anybody is interested contact me for more information. I personally will be
>> attending the event.
>>  thanks,
>>  Mark Eagle
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