[nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!

[Ann Petrous]

Thankfully my machine worked fine. The only problem I saw was that they
didn't have Braille ballats, and they didn't have those machines where you
could select your choice for some reason, they had it when the voting was
going on for  Michigan governor.I was still abele to vote, with the help of
a friend who I trusted. 

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Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!

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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