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Are Direct Record Electronic (touchscreen or pushbutton) really disabled accessible?

April 26, 2017accessible disabled electronic pushbutton record touchscreen

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Are Direct Record Electronic (touchscreen or pushbutton) really disabled accessible?

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Comparing the accessibility features of voting systems: Accessible and Verifiable Voting Technology – A Feature Comparison /Verified Voting Foundation June 21st, 2005 http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6028 ACCURACY AND EFFICACY STUDIES OF OPTICAL SCANNERS VERSES DIRECT RECORD ELECTRONICS Election official’s report on merit of optical scanners http://www.voterinfonet.com/sub/news_view.asp?NEWS_ID=125 North Carolina Study indicating that optical scan machines have the most consistent and lowest undervote rates of the various technologies used this past election. 2004 report http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/voting/totals.html DREs in New Mexico dropped votes 5 times as often as optical scanners did: Nov 2004 http://www.votersunite.org/info/newmexicophantomvotes.asp Florida study indicating that DREs had 8 times as many undervotes as optical scanners: July 2004. http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?list=type&type=26 ________________________________________