by Democracy Live | May 23, 2022 | Editorial
Background Federal and state law requires electronic ballot transmission for certain groups of voters. (Military, overseas, voters with disabilities). A majority of jurisdictions in CA comply with State mandated electronic ballot transmission laws by receiving ballots...
by Democracy Live | Oct 29, 2019 | Accessibility, Technology
Democracy Live and Dell team to offer accessible balloting tablets to voters with disabilities. Read about it here: https://www.dellemc.com/resources/en-us/asset/customer-profiles-case-studies/solutions/delltechnologies-democracy-customer-profile.pdf...
by Democracy Live | Oct 1, 2019 | Accessibility
There are 8,800 jurisdictions in the U.S. responsible for administering elections. Each of those jurisdictions, representing over 100,000 voting locations, must have an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) accessible voting machine as part of Help America Vote Act...
by Democracy Live | Oct 1, 2019 | Accessibility
If close to 10% of voters have disabilities, yet less than 1% are voting on the machines, where are the voters? One answer could be that due to visual and mobility challenges, they cannot make it to the polls to vote on a machine. The vast majority of voters who...
by Democracy Live | Sep 30, 2019 | Editorial
All the rage is about going back to paper in elections. Good idea or bad, what’s clear is who won that argument. In the last 15 years almost every jurisdiction that was “all DRE” has gone back to paper. The idea is that a hand recount of paper...
