<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Good Afternoon All,<div><br></div><div>If you haven’t seen it already, please see the below email from National regarding voting. Additionally, here in Iowa, NFBI will be partnering with the Secretary of State’s office and their election day voter hotline to try and ensure that issues faced by blind voters are both reported and resolved. We will be providing more information as we get closer to the election, but we want to make sure that the state is aware of any issues that we face, both on Election Day and during early voting. </div><div><br></div><div>Helen<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Federation of the Blind <webmaster@nfb.org><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It’s Your Right to Vote—Resources Available</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">September 10, 2024 at 6:03:37 PM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Helen Mejia <hmejianfb@gmail.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bounces+r.23760.10282584.61a4e2c70e146fd8@mailings.nfb.org<br></span></div><br><div><!--[if gte mso 9]>
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<h1><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 24pt;">Get Out and Vote! </span></h1><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">“We need to be able to vote anonymously, we need to be able to vote democratically, and we need to be able to vote independently and not have to rely on somebody else to mark the ballot and hope like crazy that they actually did what we wanted.” Federationist, Barbie Elliott from Utah, shared.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">The National Federation of the Blind is promoting Disability Voting Rights Week, September 9-13, a nonpartisan movement that advocates for accessible voting, encourages voter registration, and emphasizes the importance and right for disabled people to vote. And September 17 is National Voter Registration Day. Are you registered to vote?</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Upcoming Webinar on September 12</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Join the National Federation of the Blind on September 12, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. eastern to learn your rights when it comes to accessible in-person voting and preparing yourself for the upcoming election. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=35622&qid=10282584" rel="nofollow">Zoom Meeting ID for the Voting Webinar is 970 4983 0716</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">One tap mobile<br>
+13017158592,,97049830716#</span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Voting Resources</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">You can find the following voting resources at <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=35623&qid=10282584" rel="nofollow">nfb.org/vote</a>.</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Ballot Marking Device Demonstrations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Election Information on NFB-NEWSLINE®</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Resources by State </span></li>
</ul><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Share the importance of voting and the voting resources on social media, during chapter meetings, and at state conventions. </span></p>
<h2><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 20pt;">Save the Date: Complete Blind Voter Survey in November</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Since 2008, the National Federation of the Blind conducted surveys of blind and low-vision voters with funding from a Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Training/Technical Assistance Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. We need your experience to learn about aspects of voting that have improved and the barriers that continue to need to be removed. Mark your calendars to complete the Blind Voter Survey in November. It will be published on <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=35624&qid=10282584" rel="nofollow">nfb.org/vote</a> and sent via all our communication channels. You can read about the <a href="https://nfb.org/civicrm/mailing/url?u=35625&qid=10282584" rel="nofollow">previous Blind Voter Survey results</a>.</span></p>
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