[Mt-blind] Fw: Fyi

[Daniel Burke]

Yes, I think that she was referring to "association," and didn't realize
what she'd done till she saw her abbreviation in my reply.  That's why she
apologized.

"AutoMARK" is the brand of electronic voting machine we have in Montana.  By
the way, it is the only electronic voting machine that offers accessibility
as well as a printed, hard-copy ballot at the end of things.  Moves to have
that hard-copy ballot are pushing revisions in the Help America Vote Act,
which gives us accessible nonvisual voting.

Missoula County Clerk and Recorder Vickie Zeier has been pushing very hard
for mail-in balloting.  There is going to be a study, a considerable
scale-back from the original call for mail-in balloting in the 2007
Legislature.  But apparently Vickie is going to push for it in Missoula
County regardless.

BTW, Beth is an attorney at the Montana Advocacy Program who has been
keeping us abreast of the mail-in voting issue.  MAB has no specific policy
on this topic, but we have resolutions regarding accessible voting.  So any
change in balloting must include provisions for access for blind people -
something treated dismissively in early testimony in the 2007 session.
Also, a single voting place for blind and other people with disabilities
certainly rings of segregation.  But more importantly, if we go and vote on
machines and everyone else mails in their ballots, how will we be assured
that our votes will not be set apart as a group of votes?  This was a
concern in some states in 2004, as was New York City's single voting
location for blind people.

Finally, Beth is not blind, which explains her use of the Blackberry.  To
answer the Social Scientist of No Renown, yes the Blackberry hiccups, but it
doesn't excuse itself.  Rather, for the potential blind user the Blackberry
gives the raspberry.



Dan


-----Original Message-----
From: mt-blind-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:mt-blind-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Breslauers
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 9:06 AM
To: Montana Association for the Blind List
Subject: Re: [Mt-blind] Fw: Fyi

It was probably meant to be an abbreviation for association.  Oops!

Joy 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heather Stone" <heatherastone at yahoo.com>
To: "Montana Association for the Blind List" <mt-blind at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Mt-blind] Fw: Fyi


>I sincerely hope this comment "have reps
> from the ass of the blind" was a typing error because
> if not, I feel that it was an unnecessary crude way to
> ask for support & you need to state the time &
> location of Monday's meeting.
> --- Carl Schweitzer <carl at mt.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Beth Brenneman" <beth at mtadv.org>
>> To: <carl at mt.net>
>> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:12 AM
>> Subject: Fyi
>> 
>> 
>> Vicki Zeier just said in our study bill hearing that
>> she will be asking the
>> msla city commission to run the next city election
>> exclusively by mail - the
>> meeting is this monday, and it would probably be a
>> good idea to have reps
>> from the ass of the blind at the hearing ensuring
>> that automarks will be
>> available in accessible locations - b
>> 
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