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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Dear Fellow Federationists,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>The US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) wants to hear from blind, low vision, and other voters with disabilities about their voting experience as part of their work to update voting system guidelines. As part of its effort to learn about the experience of voters with disabilities, the EAC held a public hearing on accessible voting on April 27, 2016, to hear from voters with disabilities. You can make your voting experience part of the official hearing transcript by emailing your voting story to <a href="mailto:listen@eac.gov">listen@eac.gov</a> by Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Help improve voting accessibility by telling your personal voting story to the EAC! Thank you!<br><br> <br>Lou Ann<br> <br>Lou Ann Blake, J.D.<br>Deputy Executive Director<br>Jernigan Institute<br>National Federation of the Blind<br>200 East Wells Street<br> at Jernigan Place<br>Baltimore, MD 21230<br>Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2221<br>Fax: (410) 659-5129<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:lblake@nfb.org">lblake@nfb.org</a><br>Web site: <a href="http://www.nfb.org/">www.nfb.org</a><br> <br>The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can have the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.<br> <br><a href="https://nfb.org/make-gift">Make a gift</a> to the National Federation of the Blind and help ensure all blind Americans live the lives they want.<br> <span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>