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1.9 VOICE-ASSISTED VOTING

If a voter cannot vote via the touchscreen or cannot read, he/she can vote independently with

voice-assisted voting. As a polling official, you may help a visually impaired voter get to the

voting booth, find a chair for him/her to sit down if possible, hand over the keyboard and the

headphone, select his/her desired language if multiple language ballots are available, and insert

the voting smart card to activate the ballot. Once the smart card is accepted and the ballot is

presented on the screen, you need to press the “F9” key on the keyboard to start the voice-

assisted voting feature. If the headphone has a built-in volume control, you may tell the voter to

adjust the volume. Now you can step away from the voting machine and come back only if the

voter needs any help.

The voter will hear the voting instruction through the headphone. First, the voter will get

familiarized with the keyboard. There are four special shape buttons on the keyboard, one at each

corner of the entire keyboard unit.

Lower Right Corner Button: Press this button when you hear your candidate’s name to select it;

Upper Right Corner Button: To repeat the reading of the current contest from the beginning;

Lower Left Corner Button: This is the last button to press when you are ready to cast your ballot.

Upper Left Corner Button: This button will allow you to skip the current candidate or instruction.

The voter will be asked to press on each button. The function of each button will be explained

after the correct button is pressed. Besides these four basic buttons, several option keys will be

introduced for advanced voters who are familiar with the layout of a keyboard.

If the voter wants to listen to the instruction again, press the long narrow “Space Bar” at the

bottom row of the keyboard.

For each contest, the system will read the first candidate’s name, wait for the voter’s response,

and move on to the next candidate if the voter did not select the previous one, until all candidates