[Tall-Corn] Iowa Voting Issue Hot Line

[Dr. Bitrus Gwamna]

For the first time, I did not have a an voice activated electronic machine to vote on.
Bitrus

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From: Tall-Corn <tall-corn-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Richard via Tall-Corn
Sent: Wednesday, November 5, 2025 8:18 AM
To: Intesar <idsummerlove at gmail.com>
Cc: Richard <nf5b at mmsn.org>; tall-corn at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Tall-Corn] Iowa Voting Issue Hot Line



On Tue, 4 Nov 2025, Intesar wrote:

> I was able to vote by using the voting machine and of course with some 
> difficulties at first in explaining to them what I needed. Everything 
> went OK, but why my ballot looks different from everybody else and why 
> we have to feed it into the machine in a separate slot? I tried to 
> insert it in the same place where my husband inserted his and it 
> spitted it back out, saying that it too short, so the worker had to 
> interfere and tell me to insert it in a different place because it’s 
> thinner and shorter. This is not right, it’s like them knowing for sure who voted because my ballot is different.
> this is not secrecy. I almost do not want to use the machine and let 
> my husband help me so I could be using the regular ballot like 
> everyone else. I thought they were fixing this problem. So how can I 
> truly be independent in voting?
THose of you who were at the 2024 convention remember me addressing this issue with the representative of the secretary of state who spoke to us.
At the time I got a lot of um ur uh stammer stutter funny noises but little else.

AS for why this is so, as I just commented to April, our civics literacy is at an all time low, just look at the results of the 2024 election.

AS for secret ballot, A woman from the secretary of state's office called to follow up onm y complaint yesterday and I had to explain the concept of secret ballot to her.

No surprise there.
Just remember, the January sixth rioters are supposed to be considered patriots; and hate is to be preached from the pulpit.
We truly live in dangerous times folks.  And, I ask the question of the old civil war song.  "Whose side are you on?"



Richard