{"id":213,"date":"2004-04-14T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/archives\/213"},"modified":"2004-04-14T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-14T17:43:00","slug":"usability-and-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sumankumar.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/usability-and-the-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Usability and the elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all the skeptics and the insolent software gurus that scoff at usability initiatives, here is a wake-up call:<br \/>\nVoters with disabilities are up in arms and protesting in India: their complaint is no special measures were taken to make casting a vote easy for voters with disabilities.  I don&#8217;t know much about the electronic voting machines and their usability though. 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