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<div class="GroupWiseMessageBody" id="GroupWiseSection_1595944237000_llewis@volusia.org_0CFB6DB014CF000091BD6C00F100DA00_"><span class="GroupwiseReplyHeader">>>> Brian Norton <brian.edward.norton@outlook.com> 7/28/2020 7:40 AM >>><br></span><div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Thanks Trish for posting this good news. I am glad Volusia has an knowledgeable and responsive election supervisor Lisa Lewis.<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Gratefully,<o:p></o:p></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Brian<o:p></o:p></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Brian</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;'>
</span><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10pt;'>Edward Norton<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt;'>National Federation of the Blind of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt;'>NFBF Deaf Blind Division President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt;'>386.871.3359<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt;'>brian.edward.norton@outlook.com</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt;'><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style='color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 16pt;'>We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.</span></em><span style='color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt;'><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style='color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;'>2 Corinthians 4:18<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b>From:</b> PLipovsky <plipovsky@cfl.rr.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 27, 2020 8:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> PLipovsky <plipovsky@cfl.rr.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: State, advocacy group reach deal on blind voters<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">From WJXT<o:p></o:p></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>TALLAHASSEE, Fla.</span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'> – A deal finalized
over the weekend will allow blind voters to fill out ballots secretly at home, putting an end to a broader legal tangle over Florida’s vote-by-mail processes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>The deal, finalized Sunday by the Florida Council of the Blind and Secretary of State Laurel Lee, will require
five counties -- Miami-Dade, Nassau, Orange, Pinellas and Volusia -- to implement a program allowing blind and print-impaired voters to fill out ballots online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>The agreement also requires statewide implementation of the process by March 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>The five counties agreed to have the system in time for the Nov. 3 elections, according to Florida Council of
the Blind lawyer Matthew Dietz.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>“Voting by secret ballot is essential to the integrity of the electoral process as it allows voters to cast their
ballot without fear or intimidation,” Dietz said in a prepared statement Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>The agreement was finalized on the 30th anniversary of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, Dietz noted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>More than 500,000 Floridians are blind, and hundreds of thousands of others are print-impaired, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>“For my clients who are blind, and those with other print disabilities who need to use technology to complete
a ballot, a paper ballot did not allow them the same benefits and privileges of every other citizen. This settlement provides the means to do so,” Dietz said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>The issue was part of a broader legal case in which the groups Priorities USA and Dream Defenders and other plaintiffs
sought to make changes to help expand voting by mail. The plaintiffs sought to extend a deadline for mail-in ballots to be returned to elections supervisors and wanted free postage for absentee ballots. They also challenged a provision in Florida law restricting
paid workers from collecting mail-in ballots. But the day before a trial was slated to begin last week, U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle signed off on a settlement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Under the settlement, Lee will “educate” and “encourage” county supervisors of elections about a variety of vote-by-mail
procedures that were at the heart of the case. For example, the state’s top elections official will be required to educate supervisors about pre-paid postage for mail-in ballots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ballots” and to inform voters about the availability of the ballot drop-off sites.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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