[Home-on-the-Range] FW: Susie's response from the Disability rights office

Tue Nov 15 18:19:06 UTC 2022

Hi Everyone,

Please read this. It would never be convenient to wait 10 to 15 minutes
longer after already spending an inordinate amount of time trying to vote.

Susie Stanzel

From: Tricia McConnell <tricia at drckansas.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 9:46 AM
To: slstanzel at kc.rr.com
Subject: letter

November 15, 2022

Ms. Susan Stanzel

11905 Mohawk Lane

Leawood, KS 66209

Dear Ms. Stanzel, 

Thank you for contacting the Disability Rights Center of Kansas (DRC)
regarding concerns with the experience you had voting at Leawood City Hall.
You shared that you are blind and needed an accessible machine that would
read the ballot to you. The machine did not read the ballot completely and
someone had to read it to you. You wanted DRC to be aware of this problem. 

I reviewed your request for assistance one of our attorneys. I called you on
November 14, 2022 and shared that Lane Williams, legal director with DRC,
talked with the Johnson County Election Commissioner on November 7, 2022. He
was aware of the problem with the machines and said that individuals would
be offered to have it read to them or a portable voting machine that had
been modified to be able to read the entire ballot could be brought to the
location from the elections office if the voter was willing to wait 10-15
minutes.

Please watch your email for DRC's Satisfaction Survey regarding our
services.  We appreciate your input.  

Also, if you do disagree with the services provided to you, you have the
right to file a formal grievance.  Our Grievance Procedure and submission
form are online at  <http://www.drckansas.org/grievance>
www.drckansas.org/grievance.  If you do not have internet access or need the
form in an alternative format, please contact our office.

As this concludes our work, I will be closing your file at the DRC. If in
the future you have questions regarding your rights as a person with a
disability, please contact our office.  

Sincerely,

Tricia McConnell

Disability Advocate

Tricia McConnell

Disability Rights Advocate

Disability Rights Center of Kansas, Inc.

214 SW 6th Avenue, Ste 100

Topeka, Ks. 66603

Phone: (785) 273-9661 ext. 119

Fax: (785) 273-9414

tricia at drckansas.org <mailto:tricia at drckansas.org> 

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