[nabs-l] Convention in Orlando for 5 Years

Tina Thomas tinadt at sbcglobal.net
Wed Jul 13 01:50:56 UTC 2011


Chris- the convention will be Orlando for 6 years starting in 2013. 
Tina  

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Chris Nusbaum
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 6:31 PM
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Convention in Orlando for 5 Years

Humberto,

I thought 2012 would be in Dallas, as I heard from Dr.  Maurer at 
this year's convention.  Unless you mean 2018's would be in 
Orlando, making it six years.

 Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: Anmol Bhatia <anmolpbhatia at yahoo.com
To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:36:31 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Convention in Orlando for 5 Years

The convention will actually be in Orlando for the next six 
years.



--- On Mon, 7/11/11, Rachael Vacanti <revacanti at gmail.com> wrote:

 From: Rachael Vacanti <revacanti at gmail.com
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Convention in Orlando for 5 Years
 To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 2:28 PM
 I agree with Chris and Sherri.?
 I haven't seen the old schedule, but that's
 beside the point.?I flew down Saturday and didn't
 leave until the next
 Saturday.?You think I'd have time for fun
 right??Wrong.?I didn't get out
 of the hotel once.?I meant to go places, like the
 beach, Citywalk and Bubba
 Gump Shrimp, but I couldn't get there.?Why??
 Because there were too many
 things to do at convention.?Convention was awesome
 and I had a great time,
 but I really wanted to go out and explore Florida a bit
 more.?I looked at
 the agenda and technically, the first 3 days weren't
 "required".?General
 sessions didn't start until Wendsday.

 One thing I think might also help convention, is if they
 announce the state
 cacus.?I missed mine cause I had only heard about it
 once and I don't think
 he even told me where it was.?The states should get
 them sorted out before
 convention and email their state this is when and where it
 is.?I know that
 not everything can be perfect at a thing like this, but
 they did a very good
 job.?For my first time, it was pretty good.

 Rachael

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 Subject: [Blindtlk] Convention in Orlando for 5 years
 Date sent: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 19:59:44 -0400

 It was announced at the convention that conventions
 from 2013
 through 2017
 will be held in Orlando.?I wish we could extend
 the length of
 the convention
 back to how it was and NFB would
 organize tours for Wednesday afternoon.?That
 way, people could
 get excited
 about Orlando and have time to go places.?I
 liked the old
 schedule much
 better.?If we are going to keep people here for
 five years in a
 row, we need
 to give them ample opportunity to take advantage of
 all there is
 to do in
 Orlando.?Besides, I like the banquet the night
 before the last
 day of
 convention.


 Sherri Brun
 "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making
 other
 plans." John
 Lennon

 Check out http://www.raceforindependence.org/goto/Sherri.Brun

 E-mail: flmom2006 at gmail.com
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 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:07:57 -0400
 From: Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
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????list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] question about brail to word
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 You could also join the BrailleNote list, where users
 of the
 BrailleNote can talk about tips and tricks regarding
 the BN and
 ask questions when they're having technical
 problems.?Here's the
 link:
 www.list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote.?
 In
 the mean time, if you'd like, I can post your question
 to the BN
 list and forward you any responses off list.?
 Hope this helps!

?Chris

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 Abilities motto)

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 From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com
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 list'"
 <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 22:54:22 -0700
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] question about brail to word
 program?

 Are you trying to convert the Braille Note native
 format
 documents into word
 documents.?If you want to do so, you will have
 to use your
 Braille note to
 do it because there is no program that will translate
 and convert
 Keyword
 Braille format (kwb) documents into Microsoft word
 (.doc)
 documents, unless
 you want to convert you .kwb files into .BRF files,
 and then use
 a program
 in your PC to convert .BRF files into .doc files--you
 will need
 Duxbury
 Braille translator (which costs about $900 for the
 license if you
 don't
 already have it--you can although try it for free but
 some
 functions will be
 disabled)
 I hope this was helpful to you.?Feel free to
 send another
 message off list
 if you can and I will give you more instructions--this
 is good
 practice for
 me because I will be a teacher of the blind teaching
 assistive
 technology.
 Cheers,?Humberto

 -----Original Message-----
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 On Behalf
 Of Andi
 Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 5:27 PM
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 I am sure this is a silly question but I have to
 ask.?I use to
 use my brail

 note quite a bit but now I use my laptop more, I was
 wondering if
 there is a

 program to change the files from the brail document to
 a word
 document?
 Please keep in mind I am not very tech savvy so the
 simpaler to
 use the
 better, but I still want it to do a good job.?
 thank you so much
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 Message: 3
 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 14:20:18 -0400
 From: Josh Gregory <joshkart12 at gmail.com
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
????list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [acb-l] polling place access
 issues to this day
????in mi
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 Hi,
 OK, my thoughts.?They are, at the moment, each
 other's
 competetors/enemies/whatever.?So, at the moment
 anyway, I doubt
 it.
 Best,
 Josh

 sent from my Apex
 Email: joshkart12 at gmail.com

?----- Original Message -----
 From: Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
 list<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 11:30:00 -0400
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [acb-l] polling place access
 issues to this
 day in mi

 I forwarded this because since the NFB is working to
 ensure
 accessible voting and was the driving force behind the
 Help
 America Vote Act (HAVA.) So, we might be able to work
 jointly
 with ACB on this.?What does
 everyone think?
?Chris

 "A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp
 Abilities motto)

 The I C.A.N.?Foundation helps visually impaired
 youth in
 Maryland have the ability to confidently say "I can!"
 How? Click
 on this link to learn more and to contribute:
 www.icanfoundation.info or like us on Facebook at I
 C.A.N.
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?Sent from my BrailleNote

?----- Original Message -----
 From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
 list
 <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Date sent: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 20:25:02 -0500
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] [acb-l] polling place access
 issues to this
 day in mi

 Chris, why are you forwarding stuff from the ACB?
 Blessings, Joshua

 On 7/8/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
 wrote:
?Thoughts on this?

?Chris

?"A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!" (Camp
 Abilities
 motto)

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 impaired youth in
?Maryland have the ability to confidently say "I
 can!" How? Click
?on this link to learn more and to contribute:
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?From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net
?Subject: [acb-l] polling place access issues to
 this day in mi
?Date sent: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:05:31 -0400

?A Call to Action ?

?Unfinished Business to Ensure Michigan Voters
 with Disabilities
?Have Access to the Polls in 2012

?A Public Report on
?Polling Place

?Accessibility in Michigan

?Public Report by

?Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc.

?2011

?Acknowledgements

?Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service (MPAS)
 is Michigan?
?designated agency to advocate and protect the
 legal rights of
?persons with disabilities, mandated
?by federal and state law.?MPAS receives
 funding from the
?Administration on Developmental Disabilities,
 the center for
?Mental Health Services ?Substance
?Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration,
 the
?Rehabilitation Services Administration, the
 Social Security
?Administration, the State of Michigan
?and from private donations.

?Funding for this report has been made possible
 through the U.S.
?Department of Health and Human Services,
 Administration for
?Children and Families, and the
?Administration on Developmental
 Disabilities.?The contents are
?the sole responsibility of the author and do not
 necessarily
?represent the official views
?of the U.S.?Department of Health and Human
 Services.

?2011 by Michigan Protection and Advocacy
 Service, Inc.?This
?publication may be reproduced in part or in its
 entirety for
?noncommercial purposes as long
?as appropriate credit is given.

?Table of Contents

?Executive


 
Summary..........................................................
?
 ...................................................5

?Midterm


 
Report...........................................................
?
 .........................................................6

?Michigan? Polling Place Accessibility


 
Project..........................................................
?.........7

?Communicating Accessibility Problems with
 Election
?
 Officials......................................10

?Next


 
Steps............................................................
?
 ..............................................................11

?In


 
Summary..........................................................
?
 ..............................................................11

?Accessibility Rate Per


 
County...........................................................
?................................13

?Executive Summary

?In Michigan, voters with disabilities face
 obstacles at voting
?locations often because their polling place
 lacks physical
?accessibility.?The Help America
?Vote Act (HAVA) acknowledged the unique
 obstacles faced by
 voters
?with disabilities and authorized funding for the
 federally
?mandated Protection and Advocacy
?Voting Access programs (PAVA) to help remove
 barriers.
?Unfortunately, this vital mandate has been
 targeted for
?elimination in the President? proposed
?2012 budget.

?HAVA charged Michigan Protection and Advocacy
 Service, (MPAS),
?and other Protection & Advocacy agencies
 with helping to ensure
?the full participation of
?individuals with disabilities in the electoral
 process,
 including
?registering to vote, casting a ballot, and
 accessing polling
?places.

?The PAVA program at MPAS is designed to ensure
 that every
?eligible Michigan resident receives equal access
 to their
 polling
?location and has the opportunity
?to cast an independent secret ballot.?MPAS
 staff members are on
?the ground providing advice, technical
 assistance, and training
?to election officials about
?voting accessibility across the spectrum of
 disabilities.?The
?agency also provides outreach and training to
 voters with
?disabilities, poll workers, and
?service providers.?MPAS and the Secretary
 of State of Michigan
?partnered over the past six years working toward
 this goal,
 which
?has been effective in
?increasing physical access to polling locations
 throughout
?Michigan.

?Voting is a fundamental right protected by the
 United States
?Constitution, upheld by the Supreme Court and
 subject to intense
?public scrutiny each election
?cycle.?Provisions within these protections
 prohibit
?discrimination against people with disabilities
 in the electoral
?process.?Exercising their Constitutional
?right, however, has continued to be a challenge
 for individuals
?with disabilities despite changes made to
 federal and state laws
?intended to ensure full
?participation.

?Key Summary

???   Disability advocates
 have visited 95% (3,457) and
?reviewed the exterior of polling locations in
 Michigan.

???   Upon initial review,
 Michigan Protection and Advocacy
?Service found that only 75% of 3,457 Michigan
 polling places
 were
?compliant under the Americans
?with Disabilities Act.

???   After working with
 state and local officials, it is
?anticipated that Michigan? accessibility rate
 will be increased
?to 90% in 2012.

???   Of the locations that
 were inaccessible, 60% had one
?barrier, 30% had two types of barriers, and 6%
 had three or more
?types of barriers.

???   Only six of the 84
 counties in Michigan were 100%
?physically accessible upon initial visit.

???   MPAS continues to
 receive complaints regarding the
?AutoMARK, Michigan? accessible ballot marking
 device.

?Michigan has made great strides toward
 accessibility at the
?polls.?This report will highlight the
 steps taken to ensure
 that
?all polling locations throughout
?Michigan are accessible to voters with
 disabilities.?In
?addition, the report will offer recommendations
 for Michigan to
?achieve and maintain an accessibility
?rate of 100%.

?2010 Mid Term Report

?Acknowledging widespread irregularity throughout
 the country,
?Congress passed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA)
 in 2002.?HAVA
?included sweeping legislation
?intended to modernize the electoral system for
 all voters,
?including those with disabilities.?The
 Help America Vote Act
?reinforced the application of
?Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act
 and Section 504
?of the Rehabilitation Act.?Furthermore, in
 2004, Michigan
?lawmakers amended Michigan election
?law (Public Act 92 of 2004) to require the
 removal of physical
?barriers at polling locations.?
 Irrespective of both federal and
?state law, 25% of Michigan's
?voting locations continued to be inaccessible
 for the November
?2010 general election.?To achieve an
 all-encompassing voting
?standard for the fifty states,
?HAVA included two key components for the
 disability community:

???   All polling places
 must have at least one voting system
?which allows all citizens to cast a ballot
 privately and
?independently, whether or not one
?has a disability.

???   States must ensure
 accessibility at all public polling
?places in a manner compliant with the Americans
 with
 Disabilities
?Act (ADA).

?Accessible Voting System

?In 2004, the disability community and the
 Michigan Secretary of
?State? Bureau of Elections (BOE) carefully
 assessing which
?accessible device would best
?fit the needs of Michigan voters, and in 2006
 selected the
?AutoMARK.?The AutoMARK is an accessible
 ballot marking device
?that can be used by all voters
?with or without disabilities.

?Although every polling location is equipped with
 the AutoMARK,
?each municipality is responsible for making sure
 it is set up
 and
?operating properly.?Unfortunately,
?MPAS continues to receive complaints about the
 AutoMARK.?Voter
?complaints have included the following:?
 the AutoMARK was boxed
?up on Election Day, unplugged,
?jammed up, turned off, or set up so other voters
 could see the
??ecret?ballot.?Complaints concerning
 jammed ballots have been
?greatly reduced since the
?last round of updates were completed.?
 Because the AutoMARK is
?used only on Election Day, MPAS relies on voter
 feedback to
?correct these kinds of problems.
?MPAS continues to monitor and respond to
 complaints as they
?arise.

?Accessible Polling Places

?Under HAVA, the federal government allocated
 money to assist
 with
?the purchase of accessible equipment like the
 AutoMARK, but also
?to help municipalities
?make their polling places physically
 accessible.?Congress
?recognized that in order for people to use the
 accessible voting
?machines, the building must
?also be accessible so voters can access the
 polling location and
?voting equipment.?It is the local election
 officials?
?responsibility to make sure all
?polling locations are accessible on Election
 Day.?To help cover
?the expense for removing barriers at polling
 locations, the
?Michigan BOE administers a
?grant program called Access for All, under the
 U.S.?Department
?of Health and Human Services with funding
 allocated through
 HAVA,
?to help the state comply
?with HAVA.?In most circumstances, the
 Access for All grants
?cover all costs associated with accessibility
 upgrades for
?polling locations.

?When Michigan? State Plan to implement
 provisions under HAVA
 was
?initiated in 2004, municipal clerks were
 required to complete an
?accessibility checklist
?to determine whether or not their locations were
 accessible.
?This was one of the state? first attempts to
 gather information
?on Michigan? polling place
?accessibility.?During this time, MPAS and
 other organizations
?were working closely with individual election
 officials on
?polling location reviews and
?were also training the municipal clerks on the
 accessibility
?requirements.?MPAS also spent a
 considerable amount of time
?assisting clerks with assessing
?the accessibility of their polling locations and
 helping them
?apply for Access for All grant money.?MPAS
 found that the
?accessibility data provided by
?clerks was not, in certain instances, wholly
 reliable.

?MPAS brought this to the Bureau of Election?
 (BOE) attention
 and
?shared independent accessibility reviews with
 them.?The BOE has
?since increased efforts
?to ensure the accuracy of reporting by improving
 communication
?and requiring additional documentation from the
 clerks.

?In 2008, MPAS started to assess municipal
 polling locations
?randomly, without notifying the election
 official in advance.
?After compiling this data on
?polling locations statewide, the systemic issue
 of
?inaccessibility became a heightened
 concern.?Once these
 concerns
?were communicated to the Bureau of
?Elections, they backed a new initiative in 2010
 dramatically
?increasing their involvement in the advancement
 of polling place
?accessibility.

?This same year, the federal government began
 reviewing how the
?states were spending HAVA funds.?This
 fueled speculation that
?the federal government would
?eliminate the monies available under HAVA, since
 some states had
?not spent their money, rather placing it in an
 account and
?allowing the funds to gain
?interest.?Concerned that Congress would
 pull the allocated
 funds
?completely, which would prevent municipalities
 from accessing
?money to make polling places
?accessible, MPAS, along with the Michigan Bureau
 of Elections,
?embarked on a project to ensure 100%
 accessibility at all
?Michigan polling places.

?Michigan? Polling Place Accessibility Project

?In 2010, Michigan started building the framework
 of a statewide
?plan to reach 100% polling place
 accessibility.?MPAS and the
?Bureau of Elections strengthened
?their partnership in order to achieve this
 goal.?Within this
?plan, MPAS would review the exterior of all
 locations throughout
?the state.?Michigan has
?approximately 3,600 polling places in
 total.?MPAS had already
?gathered information on 530 polling places prior
 to 2010,
?therefore, did not revisit those
?locations (some were initially accessible and
 others MPAS worked
?closely with clerks to improve
 accessibility.?MPAS is still
?working with clerks to bring
?the remaining 57 of the 530 polling locations
 into compliance).
?MPAS was able to visit the remaining 2,927
 polling locations in
?2010.

?Overall, MPAS conducted on-site reviews of at
 least 95% of the
?polling places in Michigan.

?The on-site reviews conducted in 2010, exposed
 nearly 25% of the
?polling places that remained physically
 inaccessible as required
?by the Americans with
?Disabilities Accessibility Guidelines.

?Of the 3,457 polling locations noted above,
 2,927 were assessed
?between May-August 2010.?Using the ADAAG
 as a benchmark to
?determine physical accessibility,
?over 800 polling locations within the 2,927
 locations visited,
?had physical barriers failing to comply with the
 ADAAG ?
 barriers
?that create potential
?difficulties to voters with disabilities on
 Election Day.

?Barriers can prevent people with disabilities
 from fully
?participating in all aspects of society because
 of their
?disability.?This might include
 architectural
?barriers, physical barriers, communication
 barriers, attitudinal
?barriers, cultural barriers, etc.?
 Throughout this project,
 MPAS?
?reviews focused primarily
?on physical and external barriers, which are
 defined as
 something
?material that blocks passage.?Physical
 barriers addressed in
?this report include objects
?in the environment such as inaccessible doors or
 doorways,
?inaccessible elevators or lack thereof,
 inaccessible door
?hardware, inaccessible parking, etc.

?Among the 2,927 polling locations visited in
 2010, 28% did not
?meet accessibility standards.?Based on
 discussions with the BOE
?in 2008, when MPAS completed
?the unannounced visits, clerks were not only
 notified with a
?letter from MPAS concerning accessibility, but
 they were also
?notified by the Bureau of Elections.
?MPAS and the BOE required prompt reply about the
 municipalities
?plans to meet ADA requirements.?The
 letters contained a
?photograph of the problem area(s),
?along with the appropriate ADAAG citation.?
 Within a five month
?period, letters were sent to over 440
 municipalities concerning
?approximately 800 polling
?locations.

?As shown below, 28% of the polling places
 visited in 2010 had
?some type of physical barrier present at the
 time of review.

?The following chart highlights the most common
 number of
 physical
?barriers discovered at each location.

?A majority of the locations reviewed had only
 one physical
?barrier present.?While the largest and
 most frequent problem
 was
?related to parking, the types
?of barriers at each location varied as shown in
 the following
?chart.

?Text Box: Parking Signs: locations that had
 accessible parking
?but no signs posted?Parking:?
 locations that had no parking
?designated or noncompliant access
?aisles?Pathway:?barriers that
 existed between access aisles
 and
?entryway?Entrance:?problems such as
 door width, door
?thresholds, door hardware, vestibules,
?etc.?Ramps/Curbs: problems with curb cuts,
 ramps, handrails,
?thresholds greater than 1 inch, etc.

?Communicating Accessibility Problems with
 Election Officials

?After completing the on-site reviews, MPAS
 notified municipal
?clerks of locations where barriers were
 discovered.?Within a
?four-month period, over 440
?letters were sent to election officials.?
 By the end of 2010,
 88%
?of those clerks responded back to MPAS with a
 plan of
 correction.
?In addition, MPAS
?provided technical assistance to the election
 officials on how
 to
?improve access to their polling location in
 order to come into
?compliance.   Based on
?the responses received from clerks, 43% informed
 us they were
?would make the changes required; 31% corrected
 the barriers at
?the polling locations; 9%
?were going to apply for Access for All grant;
 and the remaining
?responses varied from clerk using temporary
 equipment.

?When a clerk informed MAPS that the work was
 completed, MPAS
?required documentation from each clerk proving
 or stating that
?the work had been completed,
?including photographs and/or copies of purchase
 orders.?A
?majority of the clerks responded either with a
 plan of
 correction
?for spring 2011 or with a
?statement that the work was completed.?
 MPAS is still waiting
 for
?some clerks to confirm that the work was done
 sufficiently.
 Once
?the removal of barriers
?at these locations has been verified, MPAS
 expects Michigan?
?polling place accessibility rate to rise to
 nearly 90 % ?--
?one of the highest in the nation.
?There remains, however, substantial work to be
 completed in the
?city of Detroit in order to reach this
 goal.?The remaining 12%
?of clerks, who did not respond
?to MPAS or the Bureau of Election with a plan of
 correction,
 will
?become a 2011 priority in order to attain 100%
 accessibility.

?NEXT STEPS

?While the focus of this report has been on
 reaching the 90%
?accessibility rate, there would still be
 approximately 10% of
?polling locations in Michigan
?that are not accessible to all voters.?
 Some clerks disagree
 with
?the findings and MPAS is working with those
 clerks.

?In 2011, MPAS will be re-visiting a number of
 polling locations
?that are still recorded as being inaccessible,
 breaking them
 into
?three categories: failure
?to communicate; work promised but documentation
 still needed;
 and
?locations requiring review by MPAS.

?MPAS will focus attention on election officials
 who have failed
?to respond to MPAS communication attempts.?
 This may involve
?revisiting the location (some
?clerks correct the problem even when they fail
 to respond),
?attending city council/township meetings, filing
 official HAVA
?complaints, and/or pursuing
?legal action under different funding
 sources.?MPAS?goal has
?always been to educate clerks and assist them
 with improving
?access first by proposing solutions
?to removing barriers.

?In 2011, MPAS will also direct its attention to
 monitoring the
?correction plans that election officials have
 submitted to
 ensure
?that barriers are removed.
?MPAS will review the remaining 150 polling
 locations that have
?not been visited yet.

?In Summary

?Throughout the 2010 project, the partnership
 between MPAS and
 the
?Michigan Bureau of Elections (BOE) was
 crucial.?The state
?reinforced the necessity of
?accessible elections.?They followed up
 with each municipality
?whose polling place was noted as being
 inaccessible in order to
?determine the jurisdiction's
?planned course of action.?In addition, the
 BOE coordinated and
?extended Michigan's polling place improvement
 grant well into
 the
?fall to assist municipalities
?in removing barriers to voting at no cost.

?Local election officials can either upgrade
 their polling places
?(with or without grant funds), or relocate the
 polling place to
?an accessible site.?The
?Bureau of Elections reports that due to the 2010
 project, they
?have seen a large increase in the number of
 municipalities
?applying for grant money.?In
?an effort to assist with the project, the BOE
 extended the
?typical grant cycle by two months, giving clerks
 additional
?opportunity to respond to MPAS?
?letter and correct the problem(s) by using grant
 funds.?The
?Michigan Bureau of Elections received 74 grant
 applications, the
?largest amount ever received
?in one grant cycle.?Of those 74 grant
 applications, 66
?applicants received letters from MPAS seeking a
 plan of
?correction - 89% of those who applied.
?A large number of municipalities have pledged to
 apply when the
?next grant period opens in early 2011.

?If the HAVA/PAVA program survives the President?
 proposed
 budget
?cuts, MPAS looks forward to continuing the
 partnership with the
?Secretary of State, ensuring
?all elections are accessible to all
 voters.?Additionally, MPAS
?encourages clerks to reach out to local
 disability groups for
?future trainings.?Listed
?below are additional recommendations moving
 forward.

?Summary/Recommendations:

???   Local clerks must be
 required to notify the Bureau of
?Elections prior to relocating polling places.

???   Accessibility checks
 should be completed when clerks
?change polling locations, to verify
 accessibility.?Reports
 (with
?photographs) should be submitted
?to the Bureau of Elections.

???   New polling locations
 must be required to adhere to the
?Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility
 Guidelines.

???   The advisory committee
 in charge of amending the State
?Plan (under HAVA) should re-convene and identify
 ways to hold
?clerks accountable and implement
?model oversight programs.

???   Access for All grant
 money should be available
 throughout
?the year, so accessibility problems can be
 addressed anytime
 they
?arise.

???   The Bureau of
 Elections and local clerks should continue
?working with disability advocacy organizations
 to complete
?year-round polling place accessibility
?audits and training to clerks.

?Accessibility Rate by County

?Table with 9 columns and 85 rows

?County

?Polling Locations

?Visited

?Accessible

?Barriers Discovered

?Percent Visited

?% Accessible of those Visited

?Now Complete

?% Now Accessible

?Alcona

?12

?12

?8

?4

?100%

?67%

?3

?92%

?Alger

?10

?10

?5

?5

?100%

?50%

?5

?100%

?Allegan

?37

?37

?35

?2

?100%

?95%

?1

?97%

?Alpena

?15

?15

?8

?7

?100%

?53%

?1

?60%

?Antrim

?15

?15

?9

?6

?100%

?60%

?2

?73%

?Arenac

?14

?14

?10

?4

?100%

?71%

?3

?93%

?Baraga

?8

?6

?1

?5

?75%

?17%

?1

?33%

?Barry

?23

?23

?18

?5

?100%

?78%

?1

?83%

?Bay

?49

?48

?36

?12

?98%

?75%

?1

?77%

?Benzie

?13

?13

?6

?7

?100%

?46%

?4

?77%

?Berrien

?57

?57

?43

?14

?100%

?75%

?8

?89%

?Branch

?18

?17

?9

?8

?94%

?53%

?6

?88%

?Calhoun

?46

?43

?34

?9

?93%

?79%

?3

?86%

?Cass

?19

?19

?12

?7

?100%

?63%

?6

?95%

?Charlevoix

?18

?16

?10

?6

?89%

?63%

?1

?69%

?Cheboygan

?20

?20

?14

?6

?100%

?70%

?5

?95%

?Chippewa

?19

?18

?13

?5

?95%

?72%

?4

?94%

?Clare

?19

?16

?13

?3

?84%

?81%

?2

?94%

?Clinton

?28

?26

?24

?2

?93%

?92%

?1

?96%

?Crawford

?7

?7

?6

?1

?100%

?86%

?0

?86%

?Delta

?21

?20

?11

?9

?95%

?55%

?1

?60%

?Dickinson

?15

?15

?6

?9

?100%

?40%

?5

?73%

?Eaton

?36

?36

?28

?8

?100%

?78%

?2

?83%

?Emmet

?19

?19

?12

?7

?100%

?63%

?5

?89%

?Genesee

?119

?109

?84

?25

?92%

?77%

?2

?79%

?Gladwin

?17

?17

?11

?6

?100%

?65%

?1

?71%

?Gogebic

?10

?10

?7

?3

?100%

?70%

?2

?90%

?Grand Traverse

?28

?27

?27

?0

?96%

?100%

?0

?100%

?Gratiot

?23

?23

?16

?7

?100%

?70%

?2

?78%

?Hillsdale

?21

?21

?12

?9

?100%

?57%

?3

?71%

?Houghton

?31

?22

?9

?13

?71%

?41%

?5

?64%

?Huron

?30

?29

?18

?11

?97%

?62%

?5

?79%

?Ingham

?95

?81

?78

?3

?85%

?96%

?0

?96%

?Ionia

?22

?22

?17

?5

?100%

?77%

?1

?82%

?Iosco

?15

?15

?14

?1

?100%

?93%

?1

?100%

?Iron

?12

?12

?6

?6

?100%

?50%

?2

?67%

?Isabella

?25

?25

?19

?6

?100%

?76%

?1

?80%

?Jackson

?47

?45

?34

?11

?96%

?76%

?2

?80%

?Kalamazoo

?97

?97

?79

?18

?100%

?81%

?7

?89%

?Kalkaska

?12

?12

?8

?4

?100%

?67%

?1

?75%

?Kent

?209

?207

?174

?33

?99%

?84%

?11

?89%

?Keweenaw

?5

?4

?4

?0

?80%

?100%

?0

?100%

?Lake

?15

?15

?8

?7

?100%

?53%

?2

?67%

?Lapeer

?24

?24

?20

?4

?100%

?83%

?2

?92%

?Leelanau

?13

?13

?8

?5

?100%

?62%

?1

?69%

?Lenawee

?30

?30

?23

?7

?100%

?77%

?4

?90%

?Livingston

?48

?45

?35

?10

?94%

?78%

?0

?78%

?Luce

?4

?4

?3

?1

?100%

?75%

?0

?75%

?Mackinac

?13

?10

?5

?5

?77%

?50%

?1

?60%

?Macomb

?235

?233

?188

?45

?99%

?81%

?17

?88%

?Manistee

?15

?15

?11

?4

?100%

?73%

?3

?93%

?Marquette

?29

?29

?16

?13

?100%

?55%

?1

?59%

?Mason

?23

?23

?15

?8

?100%

?65%

?3

?78%

?Mecosta

?22

?22

?18

?4

?100%

?82%

?1

?86%

?Menominee

?16

?14

?8

?6

?88%

?57%

?0

?57%

?Midland

?38

?29

?22

?7

?76%

?76%

?4

?90%

?Missaukee

?17

?17

?14

?3

?100%

?82%

?3

?100%

?Monroe

?42

?36

?27

?9

?86%

?75%

?5

?89%

?Montcalm

?26

?25

?21

?4

?96%

?84%

?2

?92%

?Montmorency

?9

?9

?7

?2

?100%

?78%

?1

?89%

?Muskegon

?72

?71

?68

?3

?99%

?96%

?2

?99%

?Newaygo

?28

?28

?22

?6

?100%

?79%

?3

?89%

?Oakland

?410

?380

?292

?88

?93%

?77%

?46

?89%

?Oceana

?18

?18

?12

?6

?100%

?67%

?0

?67%

?Ogemaw

?16

?16

?10

?6

?100%

?63%

?5

?94%

?Ontonagon

?14

?10

?3

?7

?71%

?30%

?0

?30%

?Osceola

?18

?18

?14

?4

?100%

?78%

?2

?89%

?Oscoda

?6

?6

?4

?2

?100%

?67%

?1

?83%

?Otsego

?10

?10

?7

?3

?100%

?70%

?2

?90%

?Ottawa

?88

?88

?79

?9

?100%

?90%

?5

?95%

?Presque Isle

?16

?16

?10

?6

?100%

?63%

?3

?81%

?Roscommon

?11

?11

?11

?0

?100%

?100%

?0

?100%

?Saginaw

?75

?75

?61

?14

?100%

?81%

?8

?92%

?Sanilac

?30

?30

?26

?4

?100%

?87%

?3

?97%

?Schoolcraft

?10

?10

?6

?4

?100%

?60%

?2

?80%

?Shiawassee

?27

?27

?17

?10

?100%

?63%

?3

?74%

?St.?Clair

?52

?48

?44

?4

?92%

?92%

?3

?98%

?St.?Joseph

?17

?17

?12

?5

?100%

?71%

?2

?82%

?Tuscola

?25

?24

?16

?8

?96%

?67%

?2

?75%

?Van Buren

?23

?22

?19

?3

?96%

?86%

?1

?91%

?Washtenaw

?106

?100

?70

?30

?94%

?70%

?0

?70%

?Wayne

?568

?519

?325

?194

?91%

?63%

?28

?68%

?Wexford

?20

?20

?14

?6

?100%

?70%

?1

?75%

?Total

?3635

?3457

?2579

?878

?95.10%

?74.60%

?289

?83%

?table end




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 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:01:14 -0400
 From: Katie Wang <bunnykatie6 at gmail.com
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
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 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] question about NLS WebBraille
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?Chris, there is no Download button on Web
 Braille.  Instead, when you
 are taken to the book itself, just press Space with s
 on your Braille
 Note and you will be prompted for where you would like
 to save the
 file and what you would like to name it.  NLS saves
 each braille volume
 of a book in a separate file, so you will have to do
 this multiple
 times if you are dealing with a book that is in more
 than one volume.
 I have been a Web Braille user for many years and find
 it a great
 resource, although I have come to rely on Bookshare
 more in the past
 few years for pleasure reading since it has a much
 larger, more
 current collection.
?Lea, I don't think you are doing anything wrong
 on your end-- It
 might be a NLS database issue.  I would suggest
 contacting your state
 NLS library again and see if they can get you
 some?sort of technical
 support contact info.  Someone from the central program
 that
 administers the Web Braille service might need to look
 into your
 situation.
?Hope this helps!
   Katie


 On 7/10/11, Lea williams <leanicole1988 at gmail.com
 wrote:
 I tried to sing up with this sight and when I log
 in it says my user
 name and password is wrong.  I have called and
 gotten it changed three
 times and it still says it.  wonder what I am
 doing wrong.

 On 7/9/11, Chris Nusbaum <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
 wrote:
 Hi all,

 I have a question for all you NLS Web Braille
 users! I recently
 registered for WebBraille, and am looking
 forward to all it has
 to offer.?But I do have this question:
 when I click on a link
 for a book, where can I find a link, button,
 or something where I
 can download the BRF file(s) onto my
 BrailleNote? I tried to
 download Walking Alone and Marching Together
 last night, and when
 I clicked on the link, it put me into the
 actual book to read
 online, but I wanted to download the book to
 read it in my
 BrailleNote's book reader at a later
 date.?How can I do this?
 Thanks!

 Chris

 "A loss of sight, never a loss of vision!"
 (Camp Abilities motto)

 The I C.A.N.?Foundation helps visually
 impaired youth in
 Maryland have the ability to confidently say
 "I can!" How? Click
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 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 20:46:14 -0400
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 Hi all,

 I?m interested in starting a blog or maybe more than
 one blog.
 So what accessible sites are there??Do bloggers
 generally write first
 person stories, or about things they see that are more
 objective?
 Any of you have a blog??How often do you update
 it??Is it possible to
 upload photos to it to go along with your story? Or
 maybe you need sighted
 help to post photos?
 What about audio? What format do audio clips need to
 be in?
 Can you have more than one blog on the same site? Can
 you write as much as you want or is there a word
 limit?
 I enjoy writing and I?d like to share with friends and
 family.  I figured
 blogging would be a neat way to write stories about
 myself, life and my
 opinions on things like books, technology, and
 religion.

 What site can you write like a journal about
 yourself?


 Thanks.
 Ashley

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 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:50:08 -0500
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 Ashley:
 Why not start an accessible forum, online, for blind
 people?
 I've found an accessible one.
 V Bulletin, is quite accessible, with an audio
 captcha, (if they still have
 it.)
 To see 2 forums, from V Bulletin, here are some
 examples.
 www.apostolicfriendsforum.com, and
 www.goodnewscafe.net.
 Blessings, Joshua

 On 7/10/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 wrote:
 Hi all,

 I?m interested in starting a blog or maybe more
 than one blog.
 So what accessible sites are there??Do
 bloggers generally write first
 person stories, or about things they see that are
 more objective?
 Any of you have a blog??How often do you
 update it??Is it possible to
 upload photos to it to go along with your story?
 Or maybe you need
 sighted
 help to post photos?
 What about audio? What format do audio clips need
 to be in?
 Can you have more than one blog on the same site?
 Can
 you write as much as you want or is there a word
 limit?
 I enjoy writing and I?d like to share with
 friends and family.  I figured
 blogging would be a neat way to write stories
 about myself, life and my
 opinions on things like books, technology, and
 religion.

 What site can you write like a journal about
 yourself?


 Thanks.
 Ashley
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 Message: 7
 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:42:30 -0400
 From: <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 To: "National Association of Blind Students mailing
 list"
????<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible blog and journal
 sites
 Message-ID:
 <AF7D2C5148FE4AC39D1C45AA2B6941EB at OwnerPC
 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed;
 charset="Windows-1252";
????reply-type=original

 Joshua,
 What is a forum like? Isn't that for a group of people
 to discuss something
 common?
 Is that how a forum differs from a blog?
 This would be a good idea if?I had several
 people interested in a forum.
 I'll see about it.  I have a beep ball team and that
 was one of the things I
 wanted to blog about.  But yes if more people want to
 post online, I'd like
 the idea of a forum.  A blog would be more for my
 writings, if I do it.

 I'll check those links out and I'm glad to know they
 are accessible.

 Ashley

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Joshua Lester
 Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:50 PM
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
 list
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible blog and journal
 sites

 Ashley:
 Why not start an accessible forum, online, for blind
 people?
 I've found an accessible one.
 V Bulletin, is quite accessible, with an audio
 captcha, (if they still have
 it.)
 To see 2 forums, from V Bulletin, here are some
 examples.
 www.apostolicfriendsforum.com, and
 www.goodnewscafe.net.
 Blessings, Joshua

 On 7/10/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 wrote:
 Hi all,

 I?m interested in starting a blog or maybe more
 than one blog.
 So what accessible sites are there??Do
 bloggers generally write first
 person stories, or about things they see that are
 more objective?
 Any of you have a blog??How often do you
 update it??Is it possible to
 upload photos to it to go along with your story?
 Or maybe you need
 sighted
 help to post photos?
 What about audio? What format do audio clips need
 to be in?
 Can you have more than one blog on the same site?
 Can
 you write as much as you want or is there a word
 limit?
 I enjoy writing and I?d like to share with
 friends and family.  I figured
 blogging would be a neat way to write stories
 about myself, life and my
 opinions on things like books, technology, and
 religion.

 What site can you write like a journal about
 yourself?


 Thanks.
 Ashley
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 Message: 8
 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:52:18 -0400
 From: Elizabeth <lizmohnke at hotmail.com
 To: <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Subject: [nabs-l] Thanks for the Help at National
 Convention
 Message-ID: <COL118-W1316868A320E5058F0232FBA450 at phx.gbl
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"


 Hello All,

 I have done my best to thank everyone individually for
 the help they have
 provided me over the past week.  However, I thought I
 would also send out a
 general message to thank anyone I may have missed
 along the way.  My
 convention may not have gone the way I wanted it to
 go, but it was exactly
 what I needed for reasons I am not willing to share on
 such a public email
 list.

 Since the last time I checked the messages on this
 list was before
 convention, it is quite possible that someone may have
 already said what
 happened, or at least their version of the story.
 However, I have already
 shared my version of the story about a million times
 by now, so if you are
 curious as to what happened, you will just have to
 wait for another time.

 The bottom line is that I am going to be just fine.  I
 just wanted to show
 my appreciation to those who may have helped me along
 the way.


 Thanks,
 Elizabeth

 ------------------------------

 Message: 9
 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 21:22:03 -0500
 From: Joshua Lester <jlester8462 at students.pccua.edu
 To: National Association of Blind Students mailing
 list
????<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible blog and journal
 sites
 Message-ID:
????
 
<CAO83KOviXamrW81HF9NX+T4LZ7M9pU3mnTrmuGYO794JtGARSg at mail.gmail.c
om

 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252

 Yes.
 Are you familiar with the beap baseball?
 I just heard about it, on the DJD Invasion.
 Blessings, Joshua

 On 7/10/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 wrote:
 Joshua,
 What is a forum like? Isn't that for a group of
 people to discuss
 something
 common?
 Is that how a forum differs from a blog?
 This would be a good idea if?I had several
 people interested in a forum.
 I'll see about it.  I have a beep ball team and
 that was one of the things
 I
 wanted to blog about.  But yes if more people want
 to post online, I'd
 like
 the idea of a forum.  A blog would be more for my
 writings, if I do it.

 I'll check those links out and I'm glad to know
 they are accessible.

 Ashley

 -----Original Message-----
 From: Joshua Lester
 Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 8:50 PM
 To: National Association of Blind Students
 mailing list
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] accessible blog and journal
 sites

 Ashley:
 Why not start an accessible forum, online, for
 blind people?
 I've found an accessible one.
 V Bulletin, is quite accessible, with an audio
 captcha, (if they still
 have
 it.)
 To see 2 forums, from V Bulletin, here are some
 examples.
 www.apostolicfriendsforum.com, and
 www.goodnewscafe.net.
 Blessings, Joshua

 On 7/10/11, bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
 wrote:
 Hi all,

 I?m interested in starting a blog or maybe
 more than one blog.
 So what accessible sites are there??Do
 bloggers generally write first
 person stories, or about things they see that
 are more objective?
 Any of you have a blog??How often do
 you update it??Is it possible to
 upload photos to it to go along with your
 story? Or maybe you need
 sighted
 help to post photos?
 What about audio? What format do audio clips
 need to be in?
 Can you have more than one blog on the same
 site? Can
 you write as much as you want or is there a
 word limit?
 I enjoy writing and I?d like to share with
 friends and family.  I figured
 blogging would be a neat way to write stories
 about myself, life and my
 opinions on things like books, technology,
 and religion.

 What site can you write like a journal about
 yourself?


 Thanks.
 Ashley

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 Message: 10
 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:50:20 +0000 (UTC)
 From: Amy Sabo <amylsabo at comcast.net
 To: "BLIND STUDENTS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF" 
<NABS-L at NFBNET.ORG>,
????"OF BLIND STUDENTS,
 COLORADO ASSOCIATION" <CABS at NFBNET.ORG
 Subject: [nabs-l] aim problem
 Message-ID:
????<
 
1760385386.319978.1310359820794.JavaMail.root at sz0144a.emeryville.
ca.mail.comcast.net


 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

 hello all,

 i hope that you are all doing well.  i'm having
 problems with the latest
 version of aim.  i have tried tabbing to all of the
 features on it to change
 the settings on it but, jfw won't let me do that.  is
 there a way in where i
 can access aim with jfw? are there speciall scripts
 for jfw that i can use?

 thanks again and, i will talk to you all soon!


 hugs,
 amy

 ------------------------------

 Message: 11
 Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:35:34 -0700
 From: "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com
 To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing
 list'"
????<nabs-l at nfbnet.org
 Subject: Re: [nabs-l] aim problem
 Message-ID:
 <0FCAE1D24B6A42BD8B6BF6FDF4002DEE at HumbertoAvila
 Content-Type: text/plain;??
    charset="us-ascii"

 The last thing I heard about AOL Instant Messenger
 (AIM) was about 2 years
 ago on a podcast about JAWS and instant messaging (by
 the way, it was the
 FS
 cast).  Maybe they have updated the software and now it
 is inaccessible with
 JAWS? I don't know...but, what version of JAWS are you
 using? Which
 operating system? Which version of aim?
 Cheers,?Humberto

 -----Original Message-----
 From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org
 [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]
 On
 Behalf
 Of Amy Sabo
 Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:50 PM
 To: BLIND STUDENTS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF; OF BLIND
 STUDENTS, COLORADO
 ASSOCIATION
 Subject: [nabs-l] aim problem

 hello all,

 i hope that you are all doing well.  i'm having
 problems with the latest
 version of aim.  i have tried tabbing to all of the
 features on it to change
 the settings on it but, jfw won't let me do that.  is
 there a way in where i
 can access aim with jfw? are there speciall scripts
 for jfw that i can use?

 thanks again and, i will talk to you all soon!


 hugs,
 amy
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 Message: 12
 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 07:50:05 -0500
 From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
 To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
 Subject: [nabs-l] iPal for sale
 Message-ID: <auto-000019992102 at mailfront3.g2host.com
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii";
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Eye Pal for sale.  $1299
I can be contacted via email at mbrianwooten at gmail.com
Thanks,

Brian




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