Electoral Reform committee  We haven't taken a position on one system over the other.

Electoral Reform committee  One of the things that we learned was that replicating the paper ballot made it a very difficult test. Each ballot was to look different, so that the people who counted wouldn't be able to tell that this had been done by the machine versus something that people had marked themsel

Electoral Reform committee  I'm not a technology expert, so I don't have any recommendations on how to control fraud or to make it a secure system. We believe that we need to persevere and try to develop a system that is barrier-free.

Electoral Reform committee  There are people with vision impairment. There's a concern that people with vision impairment cannot independently verify their vote because of the paper ballot. Our colleagues with vision impairment are in support of online voting and telephone voting.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  That allows the individual to mark the ballot, but when I discussed it with my colleague John Rae, who is our first vice-chair, he said that after the last election he wasn't really sure when he marked his ballot with the template if it had been affixed to the template correctly

Electoral Reform committee  We're opposed if, before all the barriers that might prevent people from voting were resolved, there would be penalties. People with disabilities should not be made worse off by any penalties that would be established with regard to mandatory voting, because there are sometimes r

Electoral Reform committee  That's it. Thank you very much.

Electoral Reform committee  Let's say a form of electronic voting was instituted where a voter was expected to interact with a touch screen. If there was no audio output, then that would be a new barrier, because people with vision impairment would not be able to read the screen. The individual would need a

Electoral Reform committee  The guiding principle for the development of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was “Nothing about Us, Without Us”, and that's a principle we advance in all activities. It's not that people want to put barriers in place. It's because their experiences of

Electoral Reform committee  On behalf of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities, as my colleague Carlos did, I would like to thank the committee for this opportunity to appear before it. As my colleague John Rae, the first vice-chair of CCD, pointed out in his personal submission to the committee, much