<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>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. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> 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. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> 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. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> Those are just my thoughts. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Sincerely,</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Tracie Inman</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">NFB Deaf-Blind Division</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">First Vice President</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span> </span></div><div></div><div> </div><div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 128, 255); font-size: 18px; font-family: arial, helvetica, clean, sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><font style="font-size:16pt;"
face="Times New Roman" size="4"><div><br><br><br><font size="4"><br><br></font><br><br></div></font></div><div><span></span></div><div></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, November 16, 2013 7:01 AM, "nfb-db-request@nfbnet.org" <nfb-db-request@nfbnet.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container">Send nfb-db mailing list submissions to<br> <a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a><br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> <a href="http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfb-db_nfbnet.org"
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Nov 2013 08:29:15 -0500<br>From: "Marcus Simmons" <<a ymailto="mailto:president@map-n.org" href="mailto:president@map-n.org">president@map-n.org</a>><br>To: <<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>><br>Subject: [nfb-db] Second Question for Deaf-Blind Focus Group on<br> Accessible Voting<br>Message-ID: <<a ymailto="mailto:6C24EFB9C5F74EF3899678849384A26A@toshibauser" href="mailto:6C24EFB9C5F74EF3899678849384A26A@toshibauser">6C24EFB9C5F74EF3899678849384A26A@toshibauser</a>><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br><br>My choice would be to vote at home via the Internet.<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <<a href="http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/nfb-db_nfbnet.org/attachments/20131115/25bf1286/attachment-0001.html"
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href="mailto:bf04ad1026e349e292d0fda6db13e570@DM2PR07MB352.namprd07.prod.outlook.com">bf04ad1026e349e292d0fda6db13e570@DM2PR07MB352.namprd07.prod.outlook.com</a>><br> <br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br><br>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?<br><br>From: nfb-db [mailto:<a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org">nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>] On Behalf Of Marcus Simmons<br>Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 8:29 AM<br>To: <a ymailto="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org" href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a><br>Subject: [nfb-db] Second Question for Deaf-Blind Focus Group on Accessible Voting<br><br>My choice would be to vote at home via the Internet.<br><br><br>Take the stress out of this year's holiday shopping with NFB's Bid for Equality national online auction: Black
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