[Colorado-talk] ALERT, ALERT, ALERT, ALERT!!!! NFB VOTING RIGHTS BILL ON THE MOVE!!!!!

[Dan Burke]

Greetings all -

As Scott announced earlier this week, our bill to create equal access
to the Colorado mail ballot is scheduled for a vote on Monday
afternoon at 1:30 p.m.  The hearing details are below.

Of course, anyone who wants to come to the hearing, either to testify
or help make a strong showing from the NFB of Colorado is encouraged
to do so.  We are planning our initial lineup for testimony right now.

For those that can't be at the Capitol on Monday, and actually for all
of us, calling or e-mailing the members of the State and Military
Affairs Committee would really help this bill.  For some reason, the
secretary of State's office has been a little balky, though we are
still talking with them about the language of the bill.  So we need
the committee members to feel that there are a lot of blind Coloradans
who want this bill.  And that effort should begin right away, and not
wait for the committee tomeet.

What you should say:

My name is *** and I live in ***.  I am blind and a member of the
National Federation of the Blind.  I want equal access to voting
privately and independently by mail.  Please support SB19-202 on
Monday.

The committee members, their phone numbers and e-mail addresses are
listed below.  Also, the areas they represent.  Feel free to contact
them all, or just the chair, Sen. Mike Foote.  If one of them
represents you, definitely contact him or her.  If you are a Democrat
or Republican, by all means contact someone of your party and tell
them you are of their party.

Okay, thanks to all of you in advance!  We know how to get things done, right?

Dan

# # #
SB19-202 Voting Rights For Voters With Disabilities

Hearing before the Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs Committee
Monday, April 1
1:30 pm  |  SCR 357

Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs committee

COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Senator Mike Foote, Chair - D
Boulder County
303-866-5291
mike.foote.senate at state.co.us

Senator Lois Court, Vice Chair-  D
Parts of Arapahoe & Denver Counties
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
303-866-4861
lois.court.senate at state.co.us

Senator Rhonda Fields - D
Eastern Arapahoe County
303-866-4879
rhonda.fields.senate at state.co.us

Senator Vicki Marble - R
Parts of Broomfield, Weld & Larimer Counties
Minority Caucus Chair
303-866-4876
vicki.marble.senate at state.co.us

Senator Jerry Sonnenberg – R
COUNTIES: Cheyenne, Elbert, Kit Carson, Lincoln, Logan, Morgan,
Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld, Yuma
303-866-6360
senatorsonnenberg at gmail.com




On 3/28/19, Kevan Worley via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Yes! You should go ahead and contact your own state senator and state
> representative. Ask them to support SB19-202 - Voting for Voters with
> Disabilities.
>
> You can urge chapter members to do this as well. Do it anytime in the next
> week or so. We will let you know if it fails to get out of committee.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sabndy
> Schleich via Colorado-Talk
> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 2:33 PM
> To: slabarre at labarrelaw.com; NFB of Colorado Discussion List
> <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Sabndy Schleich <saschleich7 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Colorado-talk] ALERT, ALERT, ALERT, ALERT!!!! NFB VOTING
> RIGHTS BILL ON THE MOVE!!!!!
>
> Is there anything we can do if we are not going to be able to get up there?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 26, 2019, at 12:44 PM, Scott C. LaBarre via Colorado-Talk
> <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello on this beautiful day in Colorado!!
>>
>>
>>
>> As you know, the NFB of Colorado passed a resolution at our 2018
>> Convention calling upon the General Assembly to adopt legislation
>> making it possible for us to vote via mail and to do so independently
>> just like our sighted peers.  On March 19, 2019, Senator Jessie
>> Danielson introduced S.B. 19-202 which directs the Colorado Secretary
>> of State to make mail ballots accessible to the blind.  This would be
>> accomplished through using assistive technology and allowing us to mark
> our ballots in an accessible manner.
>>
>>
>>
>> This bill will get its first hearing on Monday, April 1st at 1:30 in
>> Senate Committee Room 357 which is on the third floor of the Capitol
>> building.  We need everyone at the hearing!!!  Please attend!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> Please stay tuned because we will be asking people to email members of
>> the Committee hearing this, the Senate Committee on State, Veterans,
>> and Military Affairs.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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-- 
Dan Burke
President, NFB of Denver

"Blindness is not what holds you back.  You can live the life you want!"
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