"Differently Enabled Americans Call for Election Systems Featuring Both Accessibility and Security"

Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies ^ | 17 March 2007 | Dale Carrico

[lifelong_republican]

" differently enabled people and communities actively oppose the use of Direct Record Electronic (DRE) voting systems, that they disapprove of any false suggestion that accessibility and security are somehow at odds with one another as valuable features in any proper voting system, and that they reject the cynical use of the needs for accessibility of differently enabled citizens to undermine the needs for security of all citizens, including, of course, differently enabled ones (however construed)..."

[lifelong_republican]

There are inexpensive simple systems available with which differently-abled voters can be accommodated, with much greater reliability and security and at far less cost to the public.

[R. Scott]

...differently enabled people...

I hope this new PC term doesn’t catch on. I’d feel very uncomfortable using it.
I consider myself somewhat handicapped. When the weather is cold and damp I can hardly walk (arthritis). I have handicap license plates on my car, and sometimes use the handicap parking spaces. My vehicle registration has the letters “HP” - Handicap Plates - after my tag number.

If the above cited term applies to me, how am I “differently” enabled? Is there something I can do better now than before the arthritis?

[lifelong_republican]

You make a good point about the terminology.

What's truly reprehensible is the way disabled people have been abused as if they'd be an excuse for vote fraud.

[Gorzaloon]

...differently enabled people...

I hope this new PC term doesn’t catch on.

It's beyond stupid and halts me from considering anything further when I see it, except for an urge to give the user a knuckle sandwich.

Larry Bird and I are differently abled on the Court. Natalie McMaster and I are differently abled on the fiddle. EVERYBODY is differently abled.

[lifelong_republican]

You should be more offended by those who seek to deprive you of the right to cast and confirm your own vote for yourself.

[Gorzaloon]

You should be more offended by those who seek to deprive you of the right to cast and confirm your own vote for yourself.

No one in their right mind would do anything to prevent someone's exercise of their civic responsibility. The entire issue was cheapened and degraded by the Leftist strategy of "If we can redefine the language, we can redefine the argument, and win it."

My indignation is with the way language has to be tortured and repackaged in order to gain a point, and regardless how noble the point, I feel it is counterproductive, cheap, dirty and tawdry to do it.

If the issue is a true issue that needs redress, then why cannot it not be addressed outside of a PC agenda?

[lifelong_republican]

Those who are telling you that you need a 'computer' built in secrecy in communist China, run in secrecy by corrupt Democrats, because you can't prepare and check your own vote, are telling you that you don't have the right to vote for yourself.