[Arizona-students] Did anyone bvote?

[MARK FELIZ]

>From: Arielle Silverman <hdsilverman at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Arizona Association of Blind Students 
>List<arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List" 
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>Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Did anyone bvote?
>Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 22:38:57 -0700
>
>Hi all,
>
>
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>             I had an interesting problem when I tried to vote using the
>accessible voting machine. When I arrived at the polling place and asked if
>an accessible voting machine was available, the poll workers happily told 
>me
>that there was a machine and that I would be the first one to use it. I 
>gave
>them my ID and was directed to the machine. However, I then had to wait
>while the poll workers conferred about how to turn the machine on.
>Apparently the machine needed to be activated by inserting a special card
>that is linked to the voter's registration number. After I waited for about
>ten minutes, they tried inserting a card to activate the machine, but the
>card was rejected. The poll worker then called someone else for help, but
>they were unable to figure out how to program the activation card so that
>the machine would accept it.
>
>
>
>             Unfortunately, so that I would not have to miss class, my mom
>had driven me to the polling place on our way to a dinner that we were
>attending, and we didn't have more time to wait and see if the voting
>machine could be fixed, so I got a print ballot and my mom read it for me
>(obviously, not a secret ballot). The poll workers were all very nice and
>accommodating, and said that they had been trained on how to use the
>machine, but clearly there was a serious glitch either in their training or
>in the performance of the machine itself. I did get the name and phone
>number of the man whom the poll worker called for help, so I will call
>tomorrow to find out why the machine didn't work and how this problem can 
>be
>avoided in the future. Did anyone else have similar problems with 
>accessible
>machines requiring a special registration card before you could use them?
>
>
>
>Arielle
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Allison" <Allison.Hilliker at asu.edu>
>To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List"
><arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:10 PM
>Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Did anyone bvote?
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> > Hi Tony, Great!  Glad to hear you both voted!  Did you get to use the
> > accessible machines?  How'd that go for you?  Any troubles with it?
> >
> > Allison
> >
> >
> >
> > "Until the last drop of sun burns its sweet light
> > Plenty revolutions left until we get this thing right."
> > -- Emily Saliers
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tony Sohl" <tonysohl at extremezone.com>
> > To: "Arizona Association of Blind Students List"
> > <arizona-students at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:02 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Arizona-students] Did anyone bvote?
> >
> >
> >> Hi Allison, Melissa and I both voted.
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Hi folks:

I too had to wait for the poll worker to figure out how to activate the 
voting machine. Since I was the first to use the machine in my presinct she 
had to spend about twenty minutes figuring out how to get the thing up and 
running. She too had to call someone but in my case that phone call did the 
trick. I vowed before going to the polls that, no matter how long it takes 
to get things working, I would exercise my "right" to vote in private. It 
took me about ten minutes to electronically vote. What a liberating 
experience.

Let us not allow our long awaited right to vote in secrecy be taken away 
through all the controversy of electronic voting.

Mark Feliz