Possible use of Python for a voting machine demo project -- your feedback requested

[Tony Meyer]

> > > 3) When "WRITE-IN CANDIDATE" is selected, a large widow 
> > > (maybe the full screen) will pop up with a QWERTY keyboard
> > >  in the upper half.  This keyboard
> > > will have only three rows with the alpha keys (no punctuation or 
> > > numbers needed except for perhaps the hyphen... no shift, all CAPS).
> >
> > No apostrophe?  What if I want to vote for "O'Reilly"
> >
> As a matter of fact, we won't let you vote for O'Reilly.  On 
> second thought, you're right, I guess.  Okay we'll have an 
> apostrophe available.  Anything else?

What about non-English names?  Names with umlauts, accents, Asian
characters, and so on?

=Tony Meyer