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I'd like to draw your attention to an issue that I think should be
covered in this presidential election: making U.S. currency
identifiable by feel.

The Treasury Department is currently resisting all efforts to
improve our currency by adding tactile features like size
variation or raised markings, as most other countries already have
on their currencies. Presidential candidates need to show
leadership by making clear that this business-as-usual approach by
the Treasury Department isn't acceptable and that the time has
come to modernize our currency.

Such a change would have the following benefits:

* Improved resistance to counterfeiting by including features that
  are difficult to duplicate using digital imaging technology

* Rapid identification of money, even in the dark, for convenience
  and accuracy

* Enhanced security through enabling money to be handled
  discreetly inside a pocket or wallet

* Independent identification of bills by the estimated ten million
  blind and visually impaired Americans without the need to rely on
  sighted people or expensive and unreliable technology

* Creation of increased employment opportunities for blind and
  visually impaired young people in jobs that involve handling money

* Ability of visitors to our country to handle money as easily as
  they do at home by making the denominations more distinctive, as
  they are in most other currencies in the world, such as the euro

I urge you to discuss this issue on the campaign trail and to use
your power as President to get the Treasury Department to
modernize our currency if you are elected.  The United States
needs to catch up to the rest of the world in making currency
identifiable and easily usable by all people, regardless of their
level of vision and regardless of the lighting conditions.

This is a change that makes common sense and is therefore
achievable.  A word from the President to the Treasury is all that
is needed to make it happen.

I hope you will add this issue to your campaign platform.

For more information about the history of this issue and
statistics regarding its impact, please visit www.blinddollars.org
or www.ourmoneytoo.org, or watch Part 1 of Mary's new video at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLn0pjrVNHk (to view Part 2 and the other
videos from Mary, just scroll to the right and click on
"More From: mscroggs51").

Sincerely,

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Mary McVicker Scroggs
309-637-1619