[Ohio-Talk] Voting adventures

Wed Nov 6 13:43:26 UTC 2024

Good morning,

Things worked out fine for me but please fill out the survey and let the national office know about your experiences.

We are also gettering your post and sharing your communication with the secretary of state’s office.

Richard Payne, President National Federation of the Blind of Ohio

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Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2024 10:44 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-Talk] Voting adventures

You had to listen to it in full in both English and Spanish before you can vote.  I experienced the same issue 3 weeks ago and the BOE told me it was an issue with the software.

On Nov 5, 2024, at 7:28 PM, Shawn Martin via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org <mailto:ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> > wrote:

Good evening Milena and I had the same problem. Things were going great until we got the issue one and we couldn’t figure out how to make it go forward. Ultimately we had to switch to a paper ballot with a bipartisan team pole workers to help us out and we were able to get it done in 10 to 15 minutes, I will take the time and fill out the survey 

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On Nov 5, 2024, at 2:28 PM, President Capital chapter via Ohio-Talk < <mailto:ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Hello,

I had a great experience voting today. Everybody seemed right on task knowing all about the audio ballot. They walked me to a machine and already had headphones. I knew how to take it from there. Unfortunately, the first machine I went to would not Suck in the ballot. So I had to move to another machine. This was a broken machine issue, not an accessibility issue. I had already read about issue one, so I did skip through the language and got right to the choices. So, I did not notice the issue that You others have encountered, but yes, they need to get that fixed.

Hopefully everybody else has gotten out to vote today. Or, got to vote early.

Annette.

Annette Lutz

President

Capital Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Ohio

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On Nov 5, 2024, at 2:20 PM, smturner.234--- via Ohio-Talk < <mailto:ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

Barbara,

I had the same experience. Once again, they had to turn on the screen to move it forward. Bret is aware. I told him this last week. 

I am so tired of these inaccessibility blunders!

ST

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Subject: [Ohio-Talk] Voting adventures

I have just finished filling out the post voting questionnaire. If you have voted, please take the time to record your experience. Today you can call 877-632-1940. A nice man will read you the questions and write down your answers. This is the same number you call if you are having trouble of any kind voting. If you decide to fill out the questionnaire by phone using an artificial voice, call tomorrow. The number to call is 833-632-7878. I had my usual easy time till I got to Issue 1. There was no explanation about how to skip  the ballot language. It turns out that the down arrow does not just move you to the next voting choice in that voting question, it also skips you through the ballot language text. You have to hit the down arrow 12 times to get to the yes or no choice. I was afraid to experiment with the right arrow and down arrow because, if you pick the wrong one, you jump to the top of the description. I decided to be conservative and listen to all the gobbelty gook. This was a bad decision. It takes more than five minutes to listen to it all. The machine times out after five minutes. It then erases your entire ballot and puts you at the top of the entire process. Don’t do it. I tried to convince them that I ought to be able to vote twice since I filled out the ballot twice. They didn’t buy the argument.

Please take the time to answer the questionnaire.

Barbara Pierce (she, her, hers)

President Emerita
National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
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