An equal voice for every man and every woman: and that in over 6000 languages!

In order to allow everybody the chance to express their opinion in the most comfortable way, we have to take into consideration all native tongues. Should you have knowledge of Chinese (Mandarin) you are in the largest group of people that speak the same language. Then follow the speakers of Spanish, English, Bengali, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, German, Chinese (Wu), Javanese, Korean, French, Turkish, Vietnamese, Telugu, Chinese (Yue), Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Punjabi, Italian Gujarati and Arabic. Over 75% of the world population communicate and conduct business using only the top 25 languages. Vast expanses of the most populous territory stand accessible through limited means. To put the other thousands of languages into perspective; half of the world's languages are spoken by 10'000 people or less; a quarter by fewer than 1'000 people each.

Many languages have no written form. We employ about 25 different writing systems that compose the approximately 200 written languages in use today. In addition to that, an estimated 862 million adults can neither read nor write. That means that approximately 20% of the voting aged population is illiterate. Alarmingly, due to cultural and educational inequalities, two-thirds of that figure is composed of women.

	VI.COMMUNICATION CHART 75% of the world population communicates by using the top 25 languages.
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Every person needs to be able to understand the questions posed and then express his or her true opinion in the freest possible form. Existing technology offers options that make the voting process clear and easy. The voting machines can be pre-configured by region with additional alphabets and language sets. Text-to-speech software poses the referendum questions in multiple languages through a built-in synthetic voice interface. The answers can be entered through the two color-coded input buttons or a voice-recognition option that enables purely verbal voting. The wide use of pictograms and ideograms mixed with text forms an integral part of the referendum standard both on electronic monitors and on paper ballots. Cultural and regional tradition is taken into consideration in the choice of colors, sounds and symbols in the voting process.

All of these techniques combined allow complete access to the vast majority including people who speak only regional dialects as well as illiterate voters.