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I submitted to both parties that the US National Voter Registration forms were not accessible to the blind and that the form for people who speak Spanish speaks in English, which is just good old fashion discrimination. The House Administration Committee responded by stating that when a person speaks English with a Spanish Accent, they are speaking Spanish. This is the oversight committee, no wonder they cannot get this right! This complete contempt for the rights of the blind to register to vote is all over this government. I wrote about this subject on your blog about hotels. Here are videos of the discrimination: Hey, wake up, our civil rights are gone! The United States National Voter Registration form for people who speak Spanish speaks in English when you turn on a screen reader for the blind. This is a direct violation of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act, Executive Oder 12166, ADA and the Rehabilitation Act. What are you going to do about it? The form for people who speak English is not accessible and you still have to get someone to help you fill it out. The form requires the blind to draw a map on the back of the form, by locating a drawing that represents an intersection and you must label it and then draw an X to represent your house and then draw in buildings all relative to each other and labeled. The blind cannot see the map. The Hopi Indians cannot draw this map because they live on the range, on the land and if there is a street it is a dirt road, so they have been denied the right to vote because of this form. This is a direct violation of the Voting Rights Act, the Rehabilitation Act and ADA. What are you going to do about it? Four years ago Jim Dickson the Vice President of the AAPD presented my accessible voter registration forms to the Elections Assistance Commission, and they were made so the blind could fill them out all by themselves without assistance using free screen readers and they could mail it in just like anyone else. The EAC thanked me for reminding them that they had to make the forms and they wrote to me stating that their web design company was in charge of making the form accessible to the blind, not the agency, the web design company, even though the agency was created by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and they claimed they spent research funds researching this problem. Where did the money go? A year later the Director of the EAC wrote a letter to Congress stating he tested it and that Jim Dickson was on his board so it must be accessible. Then why did Jim Dickson present my forms to them to make them accessible? The Director either lied to Congress or he made the forms purposely inaccessible to attack the civil rights of the blind. What are you going to do about it? I have improved my forms, so all you need is a PC or a Mac and it is backwards compatible to Windows XP to read and interact with the documents. This format was tested by the NFB when I made some social security forms when I was in contact with the CIO of Social Security, they were going to issue a grant to see my process of accessibility but that was dependent on a budget being passed. Still waiting, but I am making the forms now and will also make them accessible to Section 203 languages such as Hindi, Chinese, Vietnamese, etc. accessible to the blind using free screen readers. Here are videos of the US National Voter Registration forms and the discrimination and other voting systems that are supposed to be accessible. It is a big lie. Millions of people are being denied the right to vote using an old tactic, by making sure the voter registration form is inaccessible. What are you going to do about it? http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD19A280C1FC09009