[NFBMT] voting

[denisejmoses at gmail.com]

Hello everyone,

 

Travis & I voted in person using the Express Vote machine.  It is not
totally accessible.  When you insert your ballot you have to enter in your
district number & the machine won't talk to tell you to do this so a sighted
person has to do it for you.  Your ballot gets marked with a big E to say
this is an electronic ballot & the ballot is bigger than the standard
ballot.  This automatically tells everyone you are disabled.  I thought the
NFB got the election people to make the ballot the same as everyone else.
Aren't they designing all the machines accessible so both a sighted or blind
person can use the same machine?  It seems like Montana is so far behind
every other state when it comes to accessibility.  I'm glad we have a
talking machine but it should be totally accessible & not stand out from
everyone else.  How was everyone's experience?  I wish we could vote online
in our own homes.

Denise