[IABS-Talk] Second Action Alert on SB829

[denise avant]

Hello All,

Thank you to those who called or email Rep. Stewart and your state
representative about SB 829. SB 829 is now set for hearing in the Illinois
House. we are asking you to call members of the House committee considering
the bill. The telephone numbers of the members of the committee are in the
email. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday, March 15 at 2 PM. If you
already called Rep. Stewart, you need not call her again. The same would be
true if you called one of the committee members who just happened to be your
representative. But please call everyone else. See the below action alert.
Thank you.

 

 

 

 

 

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ACTION ALERT: Tell Members of the House Ethics & Elections Committee to
Support Accessible Vote by Mail for the June 28, 2022, Primary
Election-Amend SB 829

 

SB 829 requires the Illinois State Board of Elections ("State Board") to
provide a remote accessible vote by mail system that allows voters with
print disabilities to receive, mark and verify their ballots electronically
for the November 8, 2022, General Election, and subsequent elections.  It
does NOT apply to the June 28, 2022, Primary Election.  Unlike voters
without disabilities who wish to vote by mail for the Primary Election,
voters with print disabilities who wish to vote by mail will be deprived of
the right to vote privately and independently.

 

The State Board provided a system that allowed voters with disabilities to
receive and mark their vote by mail ballots electronically for the November
2020 General Election.  Vote by mail for the June 28, 2022, Primary Election
must be at least as accessible for voters with print disabilities as it was
in 2020 and SB 829 should be amended to require it.  We cannot go backward
to a vote by mail process that is completely inaccessible for voters with
print disabilities for the Primary Election.  

 

SB 829 IS SET FOR HEARING IN THE HOUSE ETHICS & ELECTIONS COMMITTEE ON MARCH
15, 2022, at 2:00 P.M.

 

ACT NOW!!!

 

CALL MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE ETHICS & ELECTIONS COMMITTEE ASAP TO TELL THEM WE
NEED ACCESSIBLE VOTE BY MAIL FOR THE JUNE 28, 2022, PRIMARY ELECTION AND
URGE THEM TO SUPPORT AN AMENDMENT TO SB 829 TO REQUIRE IT. 

 

The Names and Phone Numbers of the Committee Members are Listed Below:

 

Representative Kelly M. Burke, Chair  (217) 782-0515

Representative Katie Stuart, Vice Chair (and House sponsor of SB 829)  (217)
782-8018

Representative Ryan Spain  (217) 782-8108

	

Representative Carol Ammons  (217) 558-1009

	

Representative Tom Demmer  (217) 782-0535

Representative Daniel Didech  (217) 782-0499

Representative Marcus C. Evans, Jr.  (217) 782-8272

	

Representative Edgar Gonzalez, Jr.  (217) 782-7752

Representative Natalie A. Manley  (217) 782-3316

Representative Martin McLaughlin  (217) 782-1517

Representative Tim Ozinga  (217) 782-0424

	

Representative Robert Rita  (217) 558-1000

Representative Tom Weber  (217) 782-1664

	

Representative Blaine Wilhour  (217) 782-0066

Representative Ann M. Williams  (217) 782-2458

Representative Patrick Windhorst  (217) 782-5131

Representative Sam Yingling  (217) 782-7320

Representative Michael J. Zalewski(  217) 782-5280

 

Click HERE
<https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/fulltext.asp?DocName=10200SB0829eng&Sessio
nID=110&GA=102&DocTypeID=SB&DocNum=0829&SpecSess=&Session=&print=true>  to
read SB 829.

 

Denise Avant, ESQ

1st Vice President

National Federation of the Blind of Illinois

For more information about NFBI,

Go to www.nfbofillinois.org