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A new development in secret ballots for blind people.

Scotland announces a pilot scheme to allow blind people to be able to vote in secret.

Last year the High Court branded arrangements for voting for blind people "a parody of the electoral process". 
But the Scottish Parliament has approved a new pilot which will see blind and visually impaired people able to vote in secret in devolved elections. Previously many blind people have described being forced to take someone into the booth to vote for them because tactile voting devices have been unavailable in polling stations. Scotland's Minister for Parliamentary Business Graeme Dey explains how the pilot will work. 
And there's a new resource for music teachers who don't know how to set about working with a blind or visually impaired child. Adam Ockelford, founder of The Amber Trust takes us through the challenges and rewards, and we hear from nine-year-old Eleanor Stollery about her singing lessons - and work on the stage. 
And Anna Brook tells us why she took issue with an email she thinks made the assumption blind people did not work. We hear about how an email about concessionary travel in the West Midlands got to a much bigger audience. 
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