Comments on: Voting Rights are Human Rights http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2008/07/voting-rights-are-human-rights.html The official Rock the Vote Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:59:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rebecca O'Malley http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2008/07/voting-rights-are-human-rights.html/comment-page-1#comment-3280 Rebecca O'Malley Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:41:00 +0000 http://qs1195.pair.com/rockvote/rtvblog/2008/07/31/voting-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-3280 This is just one of the many reasons why we need to pull together this fall and do everything we can to expose efforts to keep qualified American citizens from registering and voting. <br/><br/>Progressive Future has an Election Watchdog program that helps everyone get involved in that process. Check it out at: http://www.progressivefuture.org/voting/election-watchdog This is just one of the many reasons why we need to pull together this fall and do everything we can to expose efforts to keep qualified American citizens from registering and voting.

Progressive Future has an Election Watchdog program that helps everyone get involved in that process. Check it out at: http://www.progressivefuture.org/voting/election-watchdog

]]> By: Rebecca O'Malley http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2008/07/voting-rights-are-human-rights.html/comment-page-1#comment-3576 Rebecca O'Malley Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:41:00 +0000 http://qs1195.pair.com/rockvote/rtvblog/2008/07/31/voting-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-3576 This is just one of the many reasons why we need to pull together this fall and do everything we can to expose efforts to keep qualified American citizens from registering and voting. <br/><br/>Progressive Future has an Election Watchdog program that helps everyone get involved in that process. Check it out at: http://www.progressivefuture.org/voting/election-watchdog This is just one of the many reasons why we need to pull together this fall and do everything we can to expose efforts to keep qualified American citizens from registering and voting.

Progressive Future has an Election Watchdog program that helps everyone get involved in that process. Check it out at: http://www.progressivefuture.org/voting/election-watchdog

]]> By: biblescribe http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2008/07/voting-rights-are-human-rights.html/comment-page-1#comment-3268 biblescribe Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:07:00 +0000 http://qs1195.pair.com/rockvote/rtvblog/2008/07/31/voting-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-3268 I made the voter registration form accessible to the blind and the American Foundation for the Blind tested it, it works, and they are presenting it to the Secretary of State of West Virginia for me. I contacted the EAC the Elections Assistance Commission and they said to go ahead and send them the forms and I did and then they said, oh our webmaster is charged with making the website accessible so we do not need this. <br/>What I have done is a breakthrough in communicating with the blind and their webmaster hasn't made an accessible site yet. So I sent the forms to the ACLU.<br/><br/>The thing is that 70% of the blind do not vote and there are 1.8 million legally blind people in the US. And there are 10 million people who are visually impaired and to fill out the current form is a real problem because it is not accessible, it has a literacy test and a poll tax. And the government is spending a fortune on voting machines but they are not making voter registration accessible, so I fixed it. I sent these to the states only 18 of them responded. The are required by law to be accessible.<br/><br/>The campaigns are not directing any of their efforts to the blind, in fact the Obama campaigns' website is capable of inducing seizures in 100,000 Americans and what they are doing is expressly against the law in Section 508 of the Disability Act. They need to learn to communicate with the blind. The RNC website is the textbook example of how not to be accessible to the blind. So both parties are equally at fault. I made the voter registration form accessible to the blind and the American Foundation for the Blind tested it, it works, and they are presenting it to the Secretary of State of West Virginia for me. I contacted the EAC the Elections Assistance Commission and they said to go ahead and send them the forms and I did and then they said, oh our webmaster is charged with making the website accessible so we do not need this.
What I have done is a breakthrough in communicating with the blind and their webmaster hasn’t made an accessible site yet. So I sent the forms to the ACLU.

The thing is that 70% of the blind do not vote and there are 1.8 million legally blind people in the US. And there are 10 million people who are visually impaired and to fill out the current form is a real problem because it is not accessible, it has a literacy test and a poll tax. And the government is spending a fortune on voting machines but they are not making voter registration accessible, so I fixed it. I sent these to the states only 18 of them responded. The are required by law to be accessible.

The campaigns are not directing any of their efforts to the blind, in fact the Obama campaigns’ website is capable of inducing seizures in 100,000 Americans and what they are doing is expressly against the law in Section 508 of the Disability Act. They need to learn to communicate with the blind. The RNC website is the textbook example of how not to be accessible to the blind. So both parties are equally at fault.

]]> By: Robert http://www.blog.rockthevote.com/2008/07/voting-rights-are-human-rights.html/comment-page-1#comment-3254 Robert Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:32:00 +0000 http://qs1195.pair.com/rockvote/rtvblog/2008/07/31/voting-rights-are-human-rights/#comment-3254 Hi,<br/>I wanted to drop a line here since this post is focusing on getting everyone involved in voting. <br/><br/>I have been meeting with college groups locally in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina to bring young politically minded individuals together on a site called <a HREF="http://www.allballots.com/" REL="nofollow">AllBallots</a>.<br/><br/>You can checkout candidates like Obama - <a HREF="http://www.allballots.com/user/candidate_profile.aspx?Id=2209/" REL="nofollow">here</a> on the site.<br/><br/>Robert Touchton Hi,
I wanted to drop a line here since this post is focusing on getting everyone involved in voting.

I have been meeting with college groups locally in Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina to bring young politically minded individuals together on a site called AllBallots.

You can checkout candidates like Obama – here on the site.

Robert Touchton

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