[nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!

[dennis]

i also had troubl in mi
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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:11 AM
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!


> Did anyone else have trouble yesterday in casting an independent and 
> secret vote. We waited close to two hours, only to discover that our Auto 
> Marks machine would not recognize the ballot. Noone at our polling 
> location knew how to fix it. I asked one official if someone would lend a 
> cell phone so we could call the NFB's voting number. The lady could barely 
> use the cell phone and kept asking me questions about the phone like, 
> "Should I press this big silver button? I do not have a cell phone. Of 
> course, I was not familiar with the phone. I would think the buttons would 
> be labeled, but the lady seemed to have difficulty.  When we finally got 
> through, the call was dropped when it was transferred to the technology 
> assistance department. I had to catch a cab to another location, and had 
> already been at the polling place for close to two and a half hours. I was 
> told I would have to wait for a custodian to come from another location to 
> attempt to fix the machine, or I could let a worker fill out the ballot. 
> Since time was getting short, I had someone fill out the ballot. I was 
> really looking forward to using the machine to cast a secret and 
> independent vote. We had even gone to training, where we were allowed to 
> use the machines to fill out a silly ballot, in order to familiarize 
> ourselves with the machine. It worked fine for the tests, but not when it 
> really mattered.
>
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