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In less than 12 months the General Election will take place. However two groups will not be allowed to vote, prisoners and people who are blind or partially sighted. Current leglislation allows a significant number of blind and partially sighted people to be treated the same as criminals
Why is this important?
UK legislation does not allow people with sight impairment to use technology, which we use in our normal daily lives to maintain independence, to vote It is not always possible for someone with sight loss to get to a polling station and if they do, only 25% are accessible. We want ballot papers to be sent to us via email attachment or CD, complete those using electronic devices (with the aid of assistive software) such as Smartphone, Tablets or a…
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good luck to them I say, they failed me with the simplest of things to provide a deaf person to use the phone and help me look for work and left me with out the financial and physical support I need to live never mind have a chance to be independent. I have no hope of helping myself find a job as I tried that one for years and years without success. Good luck to anyone who needs help. As it is I’ve lost my dreams and any hope of working or supporting myself and that has made me quite depressed.
Change your thoughts, you change your world, less derpress more gratefulness
Discrimination regarding those blind or partially blind is my thoughts on this persecution yet again to those who are disabled. Oh do people with a disability cope with living when every way they turn they are persecuted. We have less rights than other minority groups.in all areas of life, housing, voting, transport and the list goes on. We are not living in 21st Century as many people would like to think we are as there is discrimination all around us nothing has changed and I very much doubt if it ever will and I doubt campaigning for such rights will only get worse not better.