[nfbwatlk] My Secret Ballot has been Cast!!

Fri Aug 5 14:58:05 UTC 2016

Marci, they are still refining all this. They take our suggestions to heart,
like the envelope page. Silly to think our screen readers and printers are
sophisticated enough to cut along the dotted line and affix it to the front
of our voter's authorized envelope, grin.  I do believe it has been change.
The signature page is the same. I don't know how you get your signature
affixed on line, but there is a way. I had to sign mine.

Three cheers for Kim Wyman who ok the process already started.

There is a disability related meeting for voting in Olympia this month. Is
anyone going?

Becky 
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Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] My Secret Ballot has been Cast!!

Hi Becky,

I am curious about something. After you filled out your ballots did you need
any sighed assistance in signing them or getting the envelop ready to mail?
I was told that, after filling out my ballot online I could sign it anywhere
on the signature page, but that the last page of my ballot printout would
consist of something which had to be cut out and affixed to a regular
envelop.

Marci
> On Aug 3, 2016, at 8:23 AM, Becky Frankeberger via nfbwatlk
<nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Coming soon, is what Kevin and I did, voted on line. We printed both 
> ballots, Signed them and stuffed it in the envelope from the Auditor 
> signed the envelope and mailed it away.
> 
> Becky
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> From: nfbwatlk [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR) via nfbwatlk
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 7:37 AM
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> Cc: Prows, Bennett (HHS/OCR) <Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV>
> Subject: [nfbwatlk] My Secret Ballot has been Cast!!
> 
> Well, thanks to the postal service and Jacob Struiksma, I voted 
> yesterday without assistance, (or for that matter interference). For 
> the past few weeks, I have periodically checked my mail box for the 
> primary election ballot that was supposed to come from the King county
elections office.
> Either it somehow didn't get delivered, or it was thrown away with a 
> bunch of junk mail I summarily dumped. I'm the first to admit that I 
> could have been at fault. So, when Jacob posted the information about 
> King County accessible voting locations last week, I decided that I 
> would take the quick trip to the Union Station in Seattle to use the 
> voting machines with the audio ballot. I don't know whether it was 
> some sort of unwarranted concern about finding the place, or just my 
> laziness that caused my mind to resist the trip, but in the end, I 
> sucked it up and went from my Office on 5th and Columbia to the 4th 
> and Jackson location by taking a bus the one stop from the Pioneer 
> Square Tunnel station to the International District Tunnel station, and
going next door to the Union Station. It was pretty easy.
> 
> I have never been very private about my voting preferences, but this 
> was only the second time I have gone to only one of three accessible 
> voting locations in the Seattle, King County area. The readers I have 
> had over the years have been trustworthy, either because I knew them 
> well, or because they were poll watchers at the precinct I used. But 
> the prospect of being able to vote a secret ballot really got me excited
about yesterday's vote.
> The experience was quite successful. At one point, my audio ballot 
> wasn't printing in order for me to complete the process of getting it 
> to the county elections folks, but we figured out the problem, which 
> was that I was impatient and didn't listen to all the instructions before
pushing buttons.
> That was definitely my fault. It didn't take long to remedy the 
> situation, and I reviewed my ballot and completed the process. I 
> thought it went reasonably smoothly, the staff was pretty well 
> familiar with the machines, and I didn't have to wait at all to vote.
> 
> The main point though is that it was completely private. No one knew 
> who I voted for, (or for that matter who I didn't vote for.) And, I 
> could keep it to myself fir ever if I was not so anxious to be 
> politically involved. I did leave the voting area  however, very proud 
> that I had been able to vote on my own without assistance from anyone 
> at all once I learned to use the voting machine. It was remarkably 
> simple, and I'd recommend it for anyone who has the time and inclination
to try it.
> 
> That having been said, if and when in the future I receive my mail in 
> ballot, I will probably seek out a reader  because there are so few 
> accessible voting locations. Many of us either can't or won't take the 
> hour or two time on the bus to get to the nearest one. It is important 
> that we all keep pushing for many more places that have accessible 
> voting stations, or for some other method of being able to vote like
everyone else, ...
> privately from home.
> 
> I do want to thank Jacob again for posting the information for King 
> county at least to the list, and to urge others to look for that 
> information for your own county.
> 
> Remember to vote often. ... Oh, I mean ... ah well, you know what I mean.
> 
> Have a great day.
> 
> /s/
> 
> Bennett Prows
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