Fwd: {Disability Studies India} Blind voters rejoice!

[joel vergis]

Dear All,
Please share widely among your networks.
Thanks and regards
Joel

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From: Vaishnavi Jayakumar <jayakumar...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:03:38 +0530
Subject: {Disability Studies India} Blind voters rejoice!
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Hi everyone,

Do share this note so blind voters benefit from prepared, independent,
private voting!

Form 7A is a statutory document required under the Conduct of Election
Rules 1961
<http://legislative.gov.in/sites/default/files/%282%29%20THE%20CONDUCT%20OF%20ELECTION%20RULES%2C%201961.pdf>
.

It is particularly of use to blind voters as it lists contesting candidates
in the same order as the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). Despite much
advocacy by DRA, this document is still not completely accessible, but it
is however readable. We've attempted to make the 1st Phase 200+ page
document easier to navigate by bookmarking the list state and
constituency-wise.

Ideally for security reasons it is best that ECI itself hosts this to
prevent tampering. Since repeated requests to ECI highlighting this issue
have not yet yielded an accessible document , DRA has bookmarked the same
for usability. We will do so for upcoming phases too as soon as the
documents are released by ECI.

Hope this helps & Happy Voting!

Vaishnavi Jayakumar
http://about.me/vjayakumar


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From: Disability Rights Alliance, INDIA <
disabilityrig...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 at 15:56
Subject: Blind voters rejoice!
To: AccessIndia.org.in <acces...@accessindia.org.in>


Blind voters rejoice! Stop fretting about whether Braille candidate list
will be available at booths. Form 7A is available phase, state,
constituencywise and can be read by a screenreader. This bookmarked
version of the ECI original document has been provided by Team Disability
Rights Alliance as an interim service- until ECI follows years of advice
and makes its documents accessible.

http://bit.ly/form-7a

Happy voting!

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Joel Vergis
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Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies
School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University
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