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accessibility_fail2011-06-07 11:32 pm
jadelennox) wrote in accessibility_fail2011-06-07 11:32 pm
not like that's private information or anything
Went to vote in a special, one question election today. Picked up my ballot and walked over towards the accessible ballot machine; bad day, couldn't hold a pen. The poll workers shouted after me, "no, you have to vote over there." I said, "I'm going to use the accessible machine," and they stared at me for a minute, mouths gaping like fish at why the young woman who was clearly visibly able-bodied would need an accessible machine.
Went to the accessible machine and put my ballot in, voted. The machine is loud and as it whirred, all of the poll workers for all three precincts in my voting location stared at me. Finally, the machine jammed, and told me to get a poll worker.
She came over. "This happened earlier today," she said to me. "But then we got the ballot out, so I figured it would be working. I should have tested it with a blank ballot afterward, sorry. The electrician can't come until tomorrow, now. But it's okay, because you can fill out the ballot by hand."
"I'll have to have someone do it for me," I said, not particularly okay with the idea.
"Oh, that's fine!" she said, chipper.
So she got my ballot out and we walked over to a booth where I told her what to mark for the extremely contentious local question. She put a sloppy black squiggle in the oval I asked her to, under where it says "please fill out the oval completely."
<sarcasm> So hooray for privacy, hooray for confidence that my vote was counted. </sarcasm>
Went to the accessible machine and put my ballot in, voted. The machine is loud and as it whirred, all of the poll workers for all three precincts in my voting location stared at me. Finally, the machine jammed, and told me to get a poll worker.
She came over. "This happened earlier today," she said to me. "But then we got the ballot out, so I figured it would be working. I should have tested it with a blank ballot afterward, sorry. The electrician can't come until tomorrow, now. But it's okay, because you can fill out the ballot by hand."
"I'll have to have someone do it for me," I said, not particularly okay with the idea.
"Oh, that's fine!" she said, chipper.
So she got my ballot out and we walked over to a booth where I told her what to mark for the extremely contentious local question. She put a sloppy black squiggle in the oval I asked her to, under where it says "please fill out the oval completely."
<sarcasm> So hooray for privacy, hooray for confidence that my vote was counted. </sarcasm>
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