[specialist]

> An advantage of electronic voting is that the machines can be designed for use by the blind.

Could be, but aren't.

If you'd ever tried the 'accessibility' features of a touchscreen voting machine, you'd see the UX fail firsthand. (I've worked as a poll inspector.)

There were other truly accessible solutions. The VotePad for instance. Low-tech plastic wrapper for existing ballots. Preserving both the secret ballot and public vote count.

Alas, the inexpensive VotePad couldn't complete with the well financed crony capitalism juggernaut which brought us HAVA.