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E S and S AutoMark ballot system with a large touch screen, tactile keypad, and audio jack, designed for accessible voting by people with disabilities, sits on a table with privacy panels. A woman in a red shirt inserts her ballot into an optical scan voting machine while other voters holding ballots wait in line behind her.
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E S and S AutoMark ballot system with a large touch screen, tactile keypad, and audio jack, designed for accessible voting by people with disabilities, sits on a table with privacy panels.
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E S and S AutoMark ballot system with a large touch screen, tactile keypad, and audio jack, designed for accessible voting by people with disabilities, sits on a table with privacy panels.
touch-screen voting machine ES&S AutoMark ballot system with audio jack for the blind. These touch-screen voting machines were designed to aid voters who are blind, deaf, or wheelchair-bound or have other disabilities.

electronic voting

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electronic voting, a form of computer-mediated voting in which voters make their selections with the aid of a computer. The voter usually chooses with the aid of a touch-screen display, although audio interfaces can be made available for voters with visual disabilities. To understand electronic voting, it is convenient to consider four basic steps in an election process: ballot composition, in which voters make choices; ballot casting, in which voters submit their ballots; ballot recording,...

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