[nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!

[dennis]

yes there machine was broken and no one was out to fix it they said it broke 
first thing in the morning i didnt vote until about 3 30 in the after noon
Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ann Petrous" <annpetrous at gmail.com>
To: "'NFB of Michigan List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:19 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!


> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of dennis
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 1:56 PM
> To: NFB of Michigan List
> Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] voting fiasco!
>
> i also had troubl in mi
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> To: "NFB of Michigan List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> 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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