[NFBSF] Accessible voting: Ballot Marking Tool links for bay area (updated)

Lisa Irving bernieslife at icloud.com
Thu Oct 15 17:46:10 UTC 2020


Jim, 

Thanks for posting this information. I had called the Marin Registrar of
Voters back in September and someone was supposed to get back to me. No
surprise that no one called me back to answer my questions about online
voting. 

I just reviewed the information from the link that you provided. While I
should be able to fill out my online ballot and print it out, it looks like
my only option is to take it to a polling place or to the Registrar's
Office. I don't have to explain the problems this poses and the health risks
I'm not willing to take. This means, it appears as though I'm forced to use
the standard print vote-by-mail ballot that I received. 

Lisa Irving 

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Subject: [NFBSF] Accessible voting: Ballot Marking Tool links for bay area
(updated)

Hey Folks,

Please thoroughly read the instructions for your county.  Below is a general
overview, but it is important that you follow all the instructions for your
county. I've listed the 5 Bay area counties below.  However, you should be
able to find the Ballot Marking Tool for any county in California by
googling for

your county remote accessible vote ballot marking tool

For example

San Francisco county remote accessible vote ballot marking tool

It's possible that in your county it's called the RAVBM (Remote Access Vote
Ballot Markup)

The general work flow is that you browse to the Ballot Marking Tool portal
for your county, fill out the ballot, print the ballot or save the ballot as
a PDF and print it elsewhere, sign the ballot envelope, put the ballot in
the ballot envelope, put the ballot envelope into the mailing envelope, get
the ID number off the mailing envelope for ballot tracking, and then mail
the mailing envelope.

Here are the sites for the 5 bay area counties.

San Francisco County
https://sfelections.sfgov.org/vote-using-accessible-vote-mail-system

Alameda County
https://www.acvote.org/accessibility

San Mateo County
https://www.smcacre.org/remote-accessible-vote-mail-system

Contra Costa County: Accessible Vote-By-Mail
https://ravbm.uocava.com/contracosta/SelectLanguage.aspx

NOTE, The instructions for Contra Costa county indicate that you'll need the
access code on the envolope that came with your ballot. This is clearly not
accessible.

Santa Clara County
https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Voting/Pages/Voting-Accessibility.aspx

Marin County
https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/voting-information/voting-by-mail/remot
e-accessible-vote-by-mail

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