[IL-Talk] FW: early voting and the new machines

[Robert Hansen]

I voted last Thursday at the North Park nature center. And she's right. The
machine is much easier to use. My coordinator had to learn how to select
the right language. There's a visual and there's the one for the speech.
You have to select the first one for the speech to enable.

Robert Hansen
hansen.robert70 at gmail.com


On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, 8:48 AM Denise Avant via IL-Talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
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> This may be of interest to people who plan to vote early.
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> See below.
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> Denise R. Avant, Esq.
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> President,
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> National Federation of the Blind of Illinois
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> From: Amy Peterson <Amy at equipforequality.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 9, 2020 8:34 AM
> To: Amy Peterson <Amy at equipforequality.org>
> Subject: FW: early voting and the new machines
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> Hello all.  A perspective and some tips on the new voting machines courtesy
> of Sharon Howerton, below.
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> Amy
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> From: Sharon Howerton [mailto:shrnhow at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2020 3:17 PM
> To: techexchange at lists.second-sense.org; Amy Peterson
> Subject: early voting and the new machines
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> I voted today and was the first person to use the new audio equipment at
> the
> Edgewater Library at 6000 N. Broadway. One of the people there told me that
> it was pretty busy yesterday but not so much today; people may have not
> realized that all of the libraries in Chicago are open for early voting
> only
> on Sundays. I don't know if this is true of all libraries, but Edgewater is
> open until 7 PM every night this week, maybe for duration of the early
> voting but I don't know for sure.
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> I found the new equipment much easier to use than the old. The controller
> is
> larger and clearly marked in uncontracted braille. The buttons also have
> different shapes. I would encourage anyone to listen to the instructions
> which last less than a minute before starting. The voter is prompted each
> step of the way; however, if you accidentally select the large select
> button, that will put you in a new language loop for which I needed sighted
> assistance to get out! (Just raise your hand and someone will come over.)
> You can review your ballot and change selections, but then I had a hard
> time
> figuring out how to complete the ballot as there were some I did not
> answer.
> Again, request assistance. The ballot is first printed at your machine. It
> comes out on a large sheet of paper, like 8x11, and is placed in a folder.
> The voter then goes to a scanner where a judge initials the ballot. Then
> the
> voter puts the ballot into a scanner which is just like loading paper into
> a
> printer. Once the ballot gets to a certain point, the machine takes it and
> finalizes your vote.
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> I hope that this information is helpful so don't be afraid to get out and
> vote. Everyone counts!
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> Sharon
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