Voting campaigns - Young Author and Speaker Molly Watt

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Coming up to the 2015 general election, a number of organisations and charities are launching campaigns and lobbying government to increase voter participation by visually impaired people. The Political and Constitutional Reform Parliamentary subcommittee have heard evidence from the Royal National Institute of Blind People and other organisations, about the experience of visually impaired people when voting. We hear some listeners' experiences, as well as find out what reforms might be possible. Molly Watt is twenty years old, has written a children's book and has Usher Syndrome. Molly talks frankly about her experience of having two sensory impairments and describes how she deals with both hearing and vision loss. Presenter: Peter White Producer: Lee Kumutat. (Photgraph: Molly Watt and Peter White)