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]]> http://docsfluency.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/poll-workers-and-the-new-voting-technology/#comment-16 breen Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:12:05 +0000 http://docsfluency.wordpress.com/2006/11/02/poll-workers-and-the-new-voting-technology/#comment-16 At the intersection of the elderly and technology, specifically with regard to electronic voting machines is another significant issue. I was made aware yesterday, by a woman who has been door-knocking for the campaign that I work on, that many elderly people are afraid of voting on the new machines. This makes sense, however, she articulated it as a new form of disenfranchisement. I had not previously thought of it that way. I had simply thought that there would be a lag time until we had a population of voters that were comfortable and thoroughly educated on how to use the new machines. Perhaps this was naive, but now it is clear to me another way in which the move to electronic machines presents challenges in the short term. At the intersection of the elderly and technology, specifically with regard to electronic voting machines is another significant issue. I was made aware yesterday, by a woman who has been door-knocking for the campaign that I work on, that many elderly people are afraid of voting on the new machines. This makes sense, however, she articulated it as a new form of disenfranchisement. I had not previously thought of it that way. I had simply thought that there would be a lag time until we had a population of voters that were comfortable and thoroughly educated on how to use the new machines. Perhaps this was naive, but now it is clear to me another way in which the move to electronic machines presents challenges in the short term.

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