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

Tue Nov 15 23:08:35 UTC 2022

this has been an ongoing issue in Kansas. The biggest trouble we have is that since the election machines are set up on a county by county basis by the time we have figured out they're not working it's too late to remediate the situation. I think the best thing we can do right now is to continue complaining and do our best at the chapter level to get engaged with county election commissioners. Thanks, Tom 

Tom Page
President 
National Federation of the blind of Kansas
316-734-4839

On Nov 15, 2022, at 12:20 PM, Susie Stanzel via Home-on-the-Range <home-on-the-range at nfbnet.org> wrote:

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 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

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