[NFBMT] Voting Problems

[BRUCE&JOY BRESLAUER]

You would have had to have a printer to print off your ballot and then mail
it in.  I think it would be cool if we could use the online voting app
without having to print it off and mail it out.  Joy

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Subject: Re: [NFBMT] Voting Problems

Ask Dan,
how did they vote the last time before this.
I thought it was from the computer.
Dar
Original message:
> We voted, but we took our absentee ballots down to the county
> elections office and ran them through the AutoMARK.  I would have
> loved to use the online voting system, but right now I don't have a
> working printer.  If we didn't need to have a printer, I would use it
> all the time.  I would love to help advocate for such a thing.  It is
> becoming available in a few other states.  If we could advocate for
> this and a touchscreen system that all could use, including the blind
> and otherwise disabled, we would have the best of both worlds.  Joy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBMT <nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of president--- via
> NFBMT
> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2020 3:52 PM
> To: 'NFB of Montana Discussion List' <nfbmt at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: president at nfbofmt.org
> Subject: [NFBMT] Voting Problems

> Hi All,

> Did anyone vote in the most recent primary election using the
> Secretary of State's (SOS) electronic balloting system?  That system
> allows voters with disabilities to request and get an electronic
> ballot in a writable PDF file that can be completed independently with
> computer assistive technology, printed, and mailed to the local election
office.

> I tried, but I did not get the code and link to the PDF.  I have no
> idea what went wrong, but I completed all the steps required to vote
> this way.  I was supposed to get an e-mail back from my county
> election office.  I never got that e-mail.  I am going to file a
> complaint about this and see how to prevent a repeat of the error,
> which I believe was a mistake or flaw in the system and not something I did
wrong.

> It sure would be great to hear if others were successful or not with
> this process.  BTW, it was hard to find and complete the steps
> necessary to vote this way.  For some reason, most of the directions
> were in PDF files rather than the easier-to-use HTML format of
> webpages.  The SOS says the method is hardly used, and now I think
> there is a very good reason why most Montanans with disabilities don't
> use this alternative voting system.  I gave it my best shot, and it
> failed utterly.  We need to make voting this way a real option, including
changing things so that we do not have to print anything.

> Please get back to me on this list or privately.  Thanks much!



> Jim Marks
> President
> National Federation of the Blind of Montana president at nfbofmt.org
> (406) 438-1421
> www.nfbofmt.org

> You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.



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