[nabs-l] voting

[Arielle Silverman]

Arizona's absentee ballots were in Braille, and that's how I voted in
2004, before HAVA. You should find out if your state has Braille
ballots.
I have had great experiences using accessible voting machines in the
polling place on my university campus when I was in Colorado. College
campuses might be better about voting machine setup than the other
voting booths.

That said, I actually preferred the Braille ballot, and if I still
lived in AZ I'd use that.
Arielle

On 7/24/14, Karl Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hello Sophie,
>
> Something I did the first time I was old enough to vote that
> might help you is to go to my city clerk's office and ask this
> question to the clerk.  Not only is this a good way of finding
> out how things are done in your state (as Elizabeth says they
> vary), but because I then had a personal relationship with the
> clerk she made sure that the accessible machine at my poling
> place was set up, and I've never had a problem voting.  When they
> know ahead of time that a blind person wants to vote, election
> workers tend to be more than happy to accommodate them, but for
> instance where I live there are seven precincts, and there's only
> one other blind person who uses the accessible machines.
> Absentee ballots as far as I know are never in Braille.  Some
> states are moving to online voting though, and I know the NFB is
> working to try to make that accessible.
>
> I hope you have a great first experience voting!
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: Sophie Trist via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> To: nabs <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Date sent: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:52:25 -0500
> Subject: [nabs-l] voting
>
> NABS friends,
>
> I'm turning eighteen this fall, just in time to vote in my
> state's senatorial elections. And I was wondering, how do blind
> people vote? D we enter a voting booth with a friend or pole
> worker and just tell them what buttons to push? I might be making
> this up, but I might have heard something once about how blind
> people can get absentee ballots sent to them in braille. Thanks
> in advance for your answers!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Sophie
>
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