Friends In my personal opinion, bringing more electronics to EVM may not find favour with EC. In this modified form, we must understand,that access technology is not going to read symbols and we need to impress that an additional numver which would be a look up numver identifying the party symbol need to e printed. By doing OCR on the print out we can be sure if the vote has been cast properly.
Agreed, lot of technology intervention, however, there does not seem to be a simpler solution. Regards Harish Kotian -----Original Message----- From: AccessIndia [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of pavan kumar lingam Sent: 20 May 2013 11:32 To: accessindia Subject: [AI] new changes in EVMS Dear access Indians warm greetings All of us know that after huge struggle election commission of India (ECI) agreed to make EVMs accessible by placing Braille labels on them. even this is not implemented in all places. Now because of abjections raised by some of the political parties and other organizations on functioning of EVMs ECI is planning to introduce a new feature known as VVPAT (voter verified paper audit trial) according to which after a person casts his / her vote a print out will be issued on a piece of paper which indicates the name and symbol of the candidate to whom the vote has been casted. here we visually challenged persons have no way of knowing the accuracy of our vote since we cannot read the paper so this is the right time that we step in and ensure that necessary changes like making EVMs voice enabled like ATMs or any other such changes are made before new feature is implemented. There fore I request learned members of this list to throw some light on this matter thanks and regards, -- l.pavan("help ever & hurt never") Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in 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. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
