Petitiongate scandal rocks Cambridge

Petitions for putting Questions on the Ballot or for putting Candidates' Names on the Ballot can be circulated by volunteers or circulated by political campaigns services vendors' paid personnel. Depending on the person signing up folks outside the supermarket, their interest in the Campaign varies, good knowledge of the Campaign varies.

License Commission Minutes for Cambridge are available in PlainText compatible with text to speech screenreaders for vision impaired folks, as well as Searchable for all folks
http://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/licensecommission/minutes2015/3...

City of Boston Boards and Commissions as well as Boston City Council could learn from the Cambridge model of making available communications/notices with greater access of the more universal PlainText. The City of Boston current City Stenographer services are lacking compared to the Cambridge vendor http://reportersinc.com City of Boston communications/notices are too often unavailable in PlainText, too often within the text unsearchable. With advances in technologies and software it's important that municipal communications/notices be accessible to all including folks with concerns re mobility, cognitive/intellectual/developmental, learning, mental/psychiatric, vision, hearing, seizure, speech, HIV/AIDS, diabetes, other, or not listed
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Hard of hearing folks, tinnitis ringing in the ears, deaf, ESL English as a Second Language folks, concussion recovery, stroke recovery folks, folks with cognitive difficulty, dyslexic, ADD attention deficit, elderly, folks in city neighborhoods far afield of City Hall, Hyde Park folks, Mattapan folks, Orient Heights folks, Lower Dorchester folks, folks with difficulty to tolerate hard aggravating public seats of the Council Chamber get sidelined for lack of access to City and Council Communications/Notices in PlainText