[nfbmi-talk] Voting System Impressions

[J.J. Meddaugh]

As a follow-up, we voted at the meeting to officially endorse the ES&S 
machine and plan on submitting a letter to county clerks and the Bureau 
of Elections. Since we already had a resolution in 2015 which stated we 
would recommend a machine, we didn't feel we needed another resolution.

Thanks for all of your help on this issue and alerting us to the mock 
election.



Best regards,
J.J.

On 5/21/2016 12:11 AM, Mark Eagle via nfbmi-talk wrote:
> Overall a very interesting experience.  The ImageCast took the longest to complete a ballot, I founda malfunction that caused the card to erase my ballot resulting in me having tocomplete a second time. I didn’t really care for the speech quality.  The Hart system is the worst. The assistance of a poll workerto enter a code is a no go for me. I would never vote on this machine in a realelection. Writing in candidates is very time consuming. Review ballot sectiontakes too much time. The ES&S took the least amount of time to complete aballot. Write-in candidates were easy to input. Feeding the ballot into the tabulatorwas excellent with no assistance. I preferred this tabulator over the othertwo. Did anyone test the screen accessibility? I turned the screensoff and was wondering if you tested the settings. I wish I could be at the board meeting tomorrow to introducea resolution in support of specific machines. Unfortunately I am running for apresidential delegate and the election is tomorrow. The NFB should make astance.  If all three system are certifiedindividual county clerks get to make the final decision on which one topurchase.
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>        From: J.J. Meddaugh via nfbmi-talk <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
>   To: NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: J.J. Meddaugh <jj at bestmidi.com>
>   Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 10:56 PM
>   Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Voting System Impressions
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> I wrote up my detailed impressions of the three voting machines tested
> and posted it on Blind Bargains. That link is below. In summary, the
> ES&S ExpressVote, which is the successor to the AutoMARK, by far
> exhibited the cleanest interface and was the only machine which could be
> operated and set up independently by a blind voter.
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> Here's the link. I'm interested in your feedback as well.
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> http://blindbargains.com/bargains.php?m=15315
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