(US) 11/06 - Voting and the Disabled...

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Author Message   Valerie Ann Hyatt Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Valerie_hyatt Post Number: 1 Registered: 11-2006 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 10:25 am:        I just wanted to share my experience as a partially blind individual. I am always disturbed by the amount of "assistance" I am offered when I vote in elections. I want my vote to be private. I have enough vision to check my ballot (I vote on paper scanned ballots in Iowa), but it might just take me longer. I often get interupted by people and their children trying to pet my guide dog while I am voting. Needless to say, the experience is very frustrating. I have voted absentee in the past, but I am always suspicious as to whether or not my vote really counts. Also, I am an English instructor at a community college and I would say only 5% of my students voted on November 7th. I fear that either apathy or fraud has discouraged young people from voting. Thank you, Bev, for making your efforts public in "Hacking Democracy". I have felt very lost and frustrated in the past, but knowing that there is a grassroots effort to clean up the process provides me with a lot of hope.   Catherine Ansbro Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant Username: Catherine_a Post Number: 3418 Registered: 12-2004 Best of Black Box? N/A Votes: 0 (A keeper?) Posted on Saturday, November 11, 2006 - 11:25 am:        Hi Valerie, Thanks very much for sharing your perspective, especially about how annoying it can be when people try too hard to "help" when you're doing just fine. That is concerning about your students not voting. I wonder what reasons they would give. Maybe they could design an objectively-worded survey to find out. (But that wouldn't work if the class is Creative Writing or Analysis of 19th Century Romantic Literature, e.g.)

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