[Massachusetts-NFB] 📢📣 Your Voice Matters: Help Shape Voting in Massachusetts 🧑‍��

[sharawinton at gmail.com]

Happy Day! 

Save the Date! Accessible Voting Equipment Vendor Fairs Are Coming This August 

The Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth is inviting blind, low vision, and voters with all disabilities to participate in a series of Accessible Voting Equipment Vendor Fairs taking place across Massachusetts this August. 

This is a unique opportunity to help shape the future of accessible voting in our state. 

Massachusetts is beginning the process of selecting the next generation of accessible voting equipment. Before any decisions are made, election officials want to hear directly from the people who rely on these systems to cast a private, independent, and accessible ballot. Your experience and perspective can help ensure that future voting technology better meets the needs of blind and low vision voters. 

At each fair, voting equipment vendors will demonstrate their accessible systems, answer questions, and invite participants to test the equipment firsthand. Your feedback will play an important role in helping state and local election officials evaluate which features provide the greatest accessibility, usability, and independence. 

Whether you are an experienced voter or are simply interested in learning more about accessible voting technology, your participation can help strengthen the voting process for blind people throughout the Commonwealth for years to come. There is a location near you from which you can choose. 

Each Vendor Fair will be open for three hours, and you are welcome to arrive at any time during the event. 

We encourage everyone who values equal access to the ballot box to attend, explore the available technology, and make your voice heard. Together, we can help ensure that every blind voter in Massachusetts has the opportunity to vote privately, independently, and with confidence.

 

The schedule of fairs is as follows:

 

Monday, August 10, 2026

11AM – 2PM 

Middleton Town Hall

105 South Main Street

Middleton, MA 01949

 

Tuesday, August 11, 2026

1PM- 4PM 

Northampton Senior Center

67 Conz Street

Northampton, MA 01060

 

Wednesday, August 12, 2026           

11AM – 2PM 

Shaw’s Center

1 Feinberg Way

Brockton, MA 02301

 

Thursday, August 13, 2026

10AM – 1PM

Perkins School for the Blind

Watertown, MA 02472

Grousbeck Center for Students and Technology (GCST)

First floor conference room

The GPS address for the GCST is 55 Beechwood Ave in Watertown, MA.

(You must use that address, as there is no direct access to the GCST parking lot from the main gate at 175 North Beacon St, Watertown, MA 02472.)

 

Friday, August 14, 2026

10AM – 1PM

Blackstone River Greenway Visitor Center

3 Paul Clancy Way

Worcester, MA 01607

Please try to stop in and let your voice be heard now and for our future elections. 

 

 

With Love, Hope and Determination,

 

Shara Winton

President, National federation of the Blind of Massachusetts

 <http://www.nfbma.org/> www.nfbma.org

 <mailto:sharawinton at gmail.com> sharawinton at gmail.com

617-304-0347

 

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