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551: Why Is Voting Still Not Accessible?


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It's claimed the UK's voting system only allows one in ten blind people to have their say independently. 

Figures also show more than half of people with sight problems weren't able to read any information sent to them ahead of the last election. 

The RNIB, which carried out the research, is suggesting changes before council and mayoral polls open in England in May. 

Disability campaigner Rachael Andrews from Norwich won a landmark court ruling in 2019 that ruled Tactile Voting Devices were unlawful as they don't allow people with sight loss to vote independently or in secret. 

Rachael is severely sight impaired herself and told Steven Scott she just wants a fairer system.

(Image shows the words: 'Turned Out 2019' with '#AccessibleVoting' underneath in bright pink. A hand putting a vote into a ballot box is drawn on the right) 

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