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New polling system a boon for voters with disabilities

November 20, 2005

Boston Globe: Voting machines designed to accommodate the needs of blind and other disabled voters were tested in Watertown, Waltham and Woburn, part of an effort to find a system that will be used statewide as Massachusetts tries to comply with federal legislation mandating equal treatment for voters with disabilities.

"Oh, I am so excited. For the first time in my life as a blind person, I have been able to vote independently, privately, and have been able to vote by myself," said Judi Cannon, who works at the Perkins School for the Blind's Braille and Talking Book Library. "I always had to talk to my husband or a pollworker [about] for whom I would vote and which position. I didn't have to do that yesterday. It gave me the same right as every other American."

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