[nfb-db] nfb-db Digest, Vol 58, Issue 20

[Tracie Inman]

I agree with the person who said their choice would be to vote from home via the internet.  Each of us is different in our unique needs for assistive technology.  By allowing us to vote from home via the Internet, you are allowing us the independence to use which ever technology is best suited to our needs.  In addition, many Deaf-Blind don't like to deal with crowds of people where the back ground noise is so loud you can not understand what is being said to you with your implants or hearing aids.  This environment is not friendly to the hearing impaired.  Nor is it friendly or accessible to some one who uses sign language and can not see.  Are there interpreters at the polls?  Nine times out of ten there is not.  Let us vote from home with our own technology.  
  If the Social Security Administration can safely go online and most business can now be done online with SSA, then so can the voting process.  
  I understand that there may be some that don't have technology to assist them.  Perhaps in these cases special accommodations can be made.  Absentee ballots can be provided and some one from the election office can assist or send a volunteer to assist.  
  Those are just my thoughts.  

Sincerely,
Tracie Inman
NFB Deaf-Blind Division
First Vice President

  
 










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Today's Topics:

   1. Second Question for Deaf-Blind Focus Group on Accessible
      Voting (Marcus Simmons)
   2. Re: Second Question for Deaf-Blind Focus Group on Accessible
      Voting (Blake, Lou Ann)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 08:29:15 -0500
From: "Marcus Simmons" <president at map-n.org>
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Subject: [nfb-db] Second Question for Deaf-Blind Focus Group on
    Accessible    Voting
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My choice would be to vote at home via the Internet.
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 21:38:12 +0000
From: "Blake, Lou Ann" <LBlake at nfb.org>
To: Marcus Simmons <president at map-n.org>, NFB Deaf-Blind Division
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Subject: Re: [nfb-db] Second Question for Deaf-Blind Focus Group on
    Accessible    Voting
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Thanks Marcus for your input. What is it about voting at home via the internet that would make this the ideal voting environment for you?

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Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 8:29 AM
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Subject: [nfb-db] Second Question for Deaf-Blind Focus Group on Accessible Voting

My choice would be to vote at home via the Internet.


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