I too had a very smooth experience of voting yesterday for the West Delhi PC at Govt. senior secondary school, sector 3, Dwarka. I too was not given the braille list and I did not ask for it as I am not at all proficient in it. Regards, Rohith
On 5/13/19, Satguru Rathi <tarannumra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > I too, had cast my vote yesterday and the overall experience was fine. > Now, let me tell you that on the polling booth 112 in MD Public school > in Sant Nagar Burari, at first they didn't have any knowledge on how to > assist a visually impaired person but since I was with my wife, I didn't > need much of assistance. However, when I reached on the polling booth > and asked for the candidates list, they told me that they don't have the > list in Braille and gave the printed one instead. When I told them that > I would need to report this to EC, one of the senior person came and > requested me to wait for couple of minutes and with in two minutes the > person was back with the list. Rest of the process was very smooth. Amit > ji, we were not asked to keep our mobiles away and in fact, I made a > call to my boss from right within the polling booth when they said they > don't have the list in Braille. > > > > With best regards, > Satguru Rathi > Mobile: +919871489945, +919315516985 > Email: satgurura...@gmail.com > > On 13-05-2019 01:58 PM, Mohammed arif khan wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My dear friends With great regret yesterday I could not vote. The main >> reason for this was that I got the information transport facility will be >> provide for the PWD candidate on behalf of Election Commission of India. >> Friends, I would like to tell you that 2 months ago I registered on >> PWD >> App, because my current home location so far away from polling booth >> station. Guys Its about 14 km, so I registered on PWD app. I regularly >> checked status on PWD app, But I did not get any feedback on PWD app till >> May 12. >> Friends I realised that the PWD App by Election Commission of India is >> useless for us. >> Now you tell us what the advantage of the PWD App? >> I feel very happy that Mr. Amit Bhatt or all vh friends has voted >> successfully. >> Regards >> >> Arif >> >> From Delhi India. >> >> Musician / performer / singer >> >> On Mon, May 13, 2019, 11:53 AM Amit Bhatt <misterbh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Even I had a smooth experience in a whole process of casting my vote at >>> booth number 76, School Block, Shakarpur east Delhi constituency. >>> >>> I reached to the polling station around 10:00 AM yesterday. first of all >>> I >>> was asked to submit my mobile phone with someone outside as they didn't >>> have >>> facility to secure the devices. >>> I submited my mobile to one of my known shop keeper outside and then >>> again >>> entered to the booth. A volunteer lady asked my escort to straightaway >>> move >>> towards the booth without staying in any queue. >>> >>> No offficial asked me whether I need a Braille list. Even I didn't ask >>> for >>> Braille list this time. >>> >>> This entire process of exercising my vote took around 20-25 minutes as >>> the >>> polling station was just at the walking distance of 5 minutes from my >>> residence. >>> >>> After reading so many experiences of visually impaird voters, it seems >>> most >>> of the things are nicely setteld by the Election Commition or even the >>> Government of India from accessibility point of view. As a result, >>> people >>> have also become more sensitised and awaken towards voters with vision >>> impairment. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Amit Bhatt >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Pranav Lal" <pranav....@gmail.com> >>> To: "'AccessIndia: a list for discussing accessibility and issues >>> concerning >>> the disabled.'" <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> >>> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2019 10:42 PM >>> Subject: [AI] My voting experience >>> >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I had a smooth experience while voting. The moment the officials in >>>> the >>>> booth saw me, they asked me if I would use an escort or would I vote >>>> independently? I got the Braille list without asking for it. It is >>> another >>>> matter that I was not able to really read it but that is my failure in >>>> terms of lack of Braille practice. The Braille list was clear. They had >>> me >>>> sign in a register and they put the ink stamp without a fuss on my >>>> right >>>> hand given that my left palm is partly formed. >>>> >>>> Booth number = 133 >>>> Voting party number: 144 >>>> Center: DON Bosco school >>>> Pranav >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Search for old postings at: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ >>>> >>>> To unsubscribe send a message to >>>> accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in >>>> with the subject unsubscribe. >>>> >>>> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, >>>> please visit the list home page at >>>> >>> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >>>> >>>> Disclaimer: >>>> 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking >>>> of >>>> the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its >>>> veracity; >>>> >>>> 2. 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