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<p>The Government chaired Accessibility of Elections Working Group is considering
how the actions contained in the Government’s response to the Call for Evidence on
Access to Elections to improve the accessibility of elections can be delivered, including
testing the additional sending of information from poll cards by electronic means
to disabled people who request this service.</p><p> </p><p>The Royal National Institute
of Blind People (RNIB) and the Royal Society for Blind Children, which are members
of the Working Group, are providing insight on the particular requirements for blind
and partially sighted people. Feedback from two authorities that have used email to
send out poll card information at recent elections is currently being reviewed.</p>
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