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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hello Everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Just a reminder that the deadline to request an absentee ballot for the November General Election is Friday, October 31<sup>st</sup> if you want to use the online ballot marking
tool to mark your ballot. A number of our members, including myself, have already used this tool to mark their ballot, and the experience has been very positive. I encourage everyone who has access to a computer with a printer to try this new way to mark your
ballot privately and independently.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To use the online ballot marking tool to mark your absentee ballot, you must first request that the ballot be delivered to you by email. Following are steps to request email
delivery of your absentee ballot:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Use the accessible online voter registration and absentee ballot request form at
</span><a href="https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/OnlineVoterRegistration/InstructionsStep1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/OnlineVoterRegistration/InstructionsStep1</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
You must have a Maryland ID or driver's license issued by MVA to use this form. In Step 9 of this form, be sure to indicate that you want an absentee ballot for the 2014 Gubernatorial General Election and that you want delivery through email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">OR, complete the absentee ballot application for 2014 elections at
</span><a href="http://www.elections.state.md.us/voting/documents/2014_Absentee_Ballot_Application_English.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.elections.state.md.us/voting/documents/2014_Absentee_Ballot_Application_English.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
This form is an inaccessible PDF. A Spanish version of this form may be found at
</span><a href="http://www.elections.state.md.us/voting/documents/2014_Absentee_Ballot_Application_Spanish.pdf"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.elections.state.md.us/voting/documents/2014_Absentee_Ballot_Application_Spanish.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.
It is also an inaccessible PDF. Be sure to indicate that you want your absentee ballot delivered by email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">OR, go to your local board of elections and complete and turn in your absentee ballot application there. Be sure to indicate that you want your absentee ballot delivered
by email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Your absentee ballot request form must be submitted by October 31, 2014, if you want to have your ballot delivered by email and use the online ballot marking tool.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Within a few days after your absentee ballot request has been received, you will receive an email from the State Board of Elections that contains a link to access the ballot.
Once you have marked your ballot, it must be printed out and mailed to your local board of elections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Feel free to contact me at
<a href="mailto:lblake@nfb.org">lblake@nfb.org</a> if you have any questions. If you don’t wish to vote by absentee ballot, be sure to either visit one of the early voting centers during the early voting period October 23<sup>rd</sup> to October 30<sup>th</sup>,
or go to your local polling place on November 4<sup>th</sup> and make your voice heard!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lou Ann
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Lou Ann Blake, J.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">HAVA Project Manager and Law Symposium Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Jernigan Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">200 East Wells Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> at Jernigan Place<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Baltimore, MD 21230<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2221<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Fax: (410) 659-5129<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">E-mail:
</span><a href="mailto:lblake@nfb.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">lblake@nfb.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Web site:
</span><a href="http://www.nfb.org/"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.nfb.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations
of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can have the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">To make a donation to the National Federation of the Blind Imagination Fund campaign, please visit
</span><a href="http://www.nfb.org/ImaginingOurFuture"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.nfb.org/ImaginingOurFuture</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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