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

Sat Aug 24 00:56:15 UTC 2019

I am going on Monday, Denise.  I will ask those questions for you.  We are also 
working to see if we can get a demonstration machine at the convention.  We 
will keep you posted.  I don't know what the time line is for replacing the 
AutoMARK machines, or if there is one.  They are assuring me repeatedly that 
everyone will be encouraged to use these new machines, not just people with 
disabilities. We'll see.  I think we will need to be vigilant.  There are only 
about six companies that are making alternative voting machines, and the one 
Montana has apparently choses in one of the most popular.  It does not keep an 
internal record of how a person voted, and the ballot it prints out is the only 
record there will be.  It is not the same size as the standard ballots. 
Theoretically, these ballots will have to be hand transcribed onto standard 
ballots in order to be counted, although there is a tabulator that can count 
them.  I don't know if every county or precinct will have a tabulator.  I think 
they think that very few people use the AutoMARK machines, which may be true, 
and that very few will use these new machines as well, so in my estimation our 
voting privacy is at risk.  That is why we need to make sure that others are 
encouraged to use them.  Joy

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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

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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 
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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

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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: 
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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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