[NFBMT] mail ballot election

Fri Mar 3 15:58:36 UTC 2017

I didn't know about thembill if a person goes by federal guidelines 
about what a service dogs actually is, a bill shouldn't be necessary. a 
service dog must perform a task in regards to a specific disability such 
as guiding or alerting a deaf individual to sounds. a therapy or suport 
dog is not under the law a service dog.

On 2/28/2017 1:22 PM, Rik James via NFBMT wrote:
> The vote in the US Senate to confirm Ryan Zinke as Secretary of Interior is
> scheduled for midnight our time.
> After that they, actually the Montana governor, Steve Bullock, will schedule
> and then announce the date for the special election to replace our sole
> Montana representative in the US House of Representatives.
>
> The 30 hours of deliberation in the Senate will end at midnight.
> I have been kind of keeping C-SPAN 2 turned on here at home, quite a bit
> these several weeks, in order to follow the proceedings of cabinet
> confirmations and the various other items they are addressing, or not
> addressing.
>
> I don't know how much you all have been following the Montana legislature.
> And the vote about the mail only ballot.
> But good on you, Joy. You had it on your radar.
> As many of you probably know, the Republican leadership tried to kill it,
> and urged their party members to vote it down, citing that too many people
> would vote if it were a mail only ballot. And that kind of generated a lot
> of national media attention. Rightly so, in my view.
>
> But anyway, I imagine that it will be an easy thing for each precinct to
> have an electronic ballot made available.
>
> But those who will not and or cannot do the mail only ballot are surely wise
> to let their own precinct workers, wishes and needs be known.
> The personal touch always is best, is it not?
>
> I wonder did any of you know about the house bill that addresses the use of
> service animals?
> I happened to be watching the 2nd ballot votes last week, and heard about it
> it on the TV.
> I don't have this state legislature channel unless I use my separate TV
> input with the actual antennae and turn off my DirecTV. The House and Senate
> sessions and many of the committee hearings are on that Montana PBS channel.
> The bill as I understood it, was to allow people like businesses or whatever
> who feel that a person with a service animal is not legitimate to prove it.
> The supporters said that fraud is rampant and too many people now are coming
> in with their pets and saying it is a service animal, when it is obvious
> that it is not.
>
> Montana does not have any certification program, and the wording of the bill
> was left deliberately vague.
>
> The only person who spoke in opposition to the bill was the lady who is
> administrator of Department of Health Human Services.
> She said that several disability groups had said that they were opposed to
> the bill.
>
> But the vote passed on the 2nd reading, 67 to 38 as I remember.
>
> Discussion?
> Late I was to learn. Of it
> I wonder if any of you have heard about it?
> Rik James
>
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2017 10:10 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NFBMT] mail ballot election
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> Is there a time to vote in May or something like that? I am confused.
>
> Original message:
>> For your information.
>
>
>
>> I called the registrar of voters today just to make sure that
>> electronic voting machines would be available for use by the blind and
>> other disabled individuals if there is a mail only ballot to replace
>> Representative Ryan Zinke.  They said by law they have to be available
>> for us.  When they know more about how the balloting is going to be
>> done, they will have a better idea of where to place the electronic
>> voting machines.  Just thought you'd like to know.
>
>
>
>> Joy Breslauer, President
>
>> National Federation of the Blind of Montana
>
>> Web Site: http://www.nfbofmt.org <http://www.nfbofmt.org/>
>
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>
>> Live the life you want
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>
>> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
>> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
>> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create
>> obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life
>> you want; blindness is not what holds you back.
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