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Published in: Universal Access in the Information Society 4/2010

01-11-2010 | Long Paper

Universal access in e-voting for the blind

Authors: Juan E. Gilbert, Yolanda McMillian, Ken Rouse, Philicity Williams, Gregory Rogers, Jerome McClendon, Winfred Mitchell, Priyanka Gupta, Idong Mkpong-Ruffin, E. Vincent Cross II

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Abstract

Since the inception of elections and election technologies, all segments of the voting population have never been granted equal access, privacy and security to voting. Modern electronic voting systems have made attempts to include disabled voters but have fallen short. Using recent developments in technology a secure, user centered, multimodal electronic voting system has been developed to study a multimodal approach for providing equity in access, privacy and security in electronic voting. This article will report findings from a study at the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind where more than thirty-five blind or visually impaired participants used the multimodal voting system. The findings suggest that the proposed multimodal approach to voting is easy to use and trustworthy.

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Metadata
Title
Universal access in e-voting for the blind
Authors
Juan E. Gilbert
Yolanda McMillian
Ken Rouse
Philicity Williams
Gregory Rogers
Jerome McClendon
Winfred Mitchell
Priyanka Gupta
Idong Mkpong-Ruffin
E. Vincent Cross II
Publication date
01-11-2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Universal Access in the Information Society / Issue 4/2010
Print ISSN: 1615-5289
Electronic ISSN: 1615-5297
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-009-0181-0

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