[NFBMT] LEGISLATIVE ALERT: SB 291 REVISE LAWS ON VOTING SYSTEMS AND BALLOT FORM

[Dar]

What I don’t understand, is we made such a fuss over the machines, now we want to make sure we can vote from home.
I feel folks got unhapppy with the help from others to vote, now we want it different again.
I would stick with the machines. 
To be out in public working with others to vote is more important than staying home. 
Just my thoughts. 
I am not for the paper balets. 



Dar 
Every Saint has a past, 
Every sinner has a future, Sent from my iPad

> On Mar 29, 2019, at 11:17 PM, BRUCE&JOY BRESLAUER via NFBMT <nfbmt at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Hello, fellow Montana Federationists.  
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> 
> SB 291, the bill to revise laws on voting systems and ballot form, will have
> a public hearing on Tuesday, April 2 at 8:00 A.M. before the House State
> Administration Committee.
> 
> It already sailed through the Senate, and now it's the House's turn to
> consider SB 291.  We should make our voices heard concerning our desire to
> vote privately and independently, and our desire to assure that our ballots
> are the same as everyone else uses.  Since there are no voting machines
> available now that comply with our wishes, the only other option is to push
> for integration of the machines so that an increased number and diversity of
> voters will use them
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> If I can find transportation to Helena, I will be going to represent us.
> Regardless of whether I am able to go, I sent in my testimony.  See below.
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> I am writing as an individual who is blind, and also as the first vice
> president of the National Federation of the Blind of Montana, the largest
> consumer advocacy and civil rights organization in the United States,
> consisting of over fifty thousand members, and with chapters in all fifty
> states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.  The only way I
> would be for this bill is if all voters were encouraged to use the same
> voting technology, so that the ballots of disabled voters cannot be
> distinguished from those of nondisabled voters.  I would feel better if our
> privacy and secrecy rights were built in to the process from the beginning,
> rather than added on as a rather clumsy afterthought.  The ballots used by
> the disabled should be of the same size and content as those used by the
> nondisabled population.  that is the only way to guarantee the secrecy and
> privacy of voting which every other citizen enjoys.  I can't stress this
> strongly enough.  thank you for taking my concerns into consideration.
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> The National Federation of the Blind is a community of members and friends
> who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind.  Every day we work
> together to help blind people live the lives they want.
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> If you would like to leave a message for a legislator, you can call
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> You may also contact legislators using the online web message form.
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> Joy Breslauer, First Vice President and Public Policies Committee chair 
> 
> National Federation of the Blind of Montana 
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> 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 is a community of members and friends
> who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every day we work
> together to help blind people live the lives they want. 
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