[nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!

[J.J. Meddaugh]

It may be worth noting the voting location where these problems occured.
We had no problems in kalamazoo City precinct #3. This county seems to have 
their act together.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dennis" <dennisl1982 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Michigan List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!


>i also had troubl in mi
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 11:11 AM
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>> 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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