[NFBMT] FW: MTCIL Alerts: CFHHS Interim Committee, Olmstead Rally, and New Accessible Voting Machines

Sat Aug 24 00:01:34 UTC 2019

Jim,

Are you able to go & test this machine out?  If it wasn't so soon we would come & do it.  We have an Automark machine in Corvallis.  Will these machines still be used or will each polling place have to purchase one of these machines?  I wonder when this machine will be available?  Will every voter use them or just people with disabilities?
Denise

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This may interest some of you.  Joy 

From: Montana Centers for Independent Living <mtcil=summitilc.org at cmail19.com> On Behalf Of Montana Centers for Independent Living
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Subject: MTCIL Alerts: CFHHS Interim Committee, Olmstead Rally, and New Accessible Voting Machines

MTCIL Action Alert

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Voting Systems Certification Event
August 26th & 27th

Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated and Administrative Rule, Election Systems and Software (ES&S) applied for certification of the EVS 6.0.4.0 Voting Systems and a new voter assist terminal known as ExpressVote (HW 2.1).  The Montana Secretary of State’s office will be holding a certification event on August 27th, Room 303, State Capitol, Helena, MT.

The Montana Secretary of State’s office is inviting members of the public to the event.  Part of the event is to test and examine for certification a new voter assist terminal known as ExpressVote. The ExpressVote devices are ES&S’s replacement device for the Automark Ballot marking device. More information on ExpressVote can be found on ES&S website at  <https://montanacentersforindependentliving.cmail19.com/t/i-l-pihujiy-yuxnjuo-y/> https://www.essvote.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ExpressVote-Marker_One-Sheet.pdf

ES&S will have demonstration units of ExpressVote available for the members public to inspect and use starting from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on August 26th and then from 8:00 am to 9:00 am on August 27th.  The formal certification event will start at 9:00 am. The Montana Secretary of State’s office will take public comment at the end of the certification event.

If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Stuart Fuller at (406) 444-4282 or  <mailto:Stuart.Fuller at mt.gov> Stuart.Fuller at mt.gov

CFHHS Interim Committee Meeting
September 13th

The  <https://montanacentersforindependentliving.cmail19.com/t/i-l-pihujiy-yuxnjuo-j/> Children, Families, Health, and Human Services Legislative Interim Committee will hold its next meeting on Friday, September 13 from 8:00 a.m. until 5:1 5 p.m. You can download the agenda for the meeting at:  <https://montanacentersforindependentliving.cmail19.com/t/i-l-pihujiy-yuxnjuo-t/> https://leg.mt.gov/content/Committees/Interim/2019-2020/Children-Family/Meetings/September-2019/sept2019-draft-agenda.pdf.

The committee will take general public comment on any non-study item in the committee's jurisdiction at 1:00 p.m. and at 3:00 p.m. will discuss HJR 50, a study of the Senior and Long-Term Care Division with public comment to follow at 4:00 p.m.

Olmstead 20th Anniversary Rally
September 13th – 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

On September 13 from 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m., the Montana Centers for Independent Living and Montana Disability Voices will be hosting a 20th Anniversary Celebration Rally of the Supreme Court's 1999 Olmstead Decision.

Since June 1999, the landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Olmstead v. L.C. has increased community participation and independence of people with disabilities and older Americans who are moving out of nursing homes and other institutions and back into the community.

Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson, two women with disabilities living in Georgia nursing homes, asked state officials to allow them to move into their own homes in the community. After the State refused, Atlanta Legal Aid attorney Susan Jamieson filed a lawsuit on their behalf. After appeals, the case was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court. On June 22, 1999, the Supreme Court ruled that Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits the unnecessary institutionalization of persons with disabilities.

In the words of the Supreme Court, services to persons with disabilities must be provided “in the most integrated setting possible.”

Please join us to celebrate this landmark decision as well as to provide testimony about the importance of community-based services at the Children, families, health, and Human Services Legislative Interim Committee.

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