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asterrocCan you recall the last time you voted?
Do you recall how you got into the last building you voted in?
Was *your* polling place wheelchair accessible? What about the ballot - could a blind person, or someone with limited mobility, have voted confidentially? Was there Braille? Would they have to pull a lever that able-bodied people find stiff? Or would they have had to trust some stranger to read all the items slowly and clearly, said their vote aloud for all to hear, and hoped the stranger marked down what they said?
According to the ADA, polling places have to be accessible to all, and yet, they aren't. Less than half.
For me it was for the 2004 presidential election, and I voted via absentee ballot. Before that, I voted in the primaries I think, in a small building attached to a church in North A****.
Do you recall how you got into the last building you voted in?
I had trouble finding a parking spot; but I was lazy, I should've walked. There some three or four steps - I forget how many - and there was also a ramp, that I remember grumbling was the size of two or three parking spaces.
Was *your* polling place wheelchair accessible? What about the ballot - could a blind person, or someone with limited mobility, have voted confidentially? Was there Braille? Would they have to pull a lever that able-bodied people find stiff? Or would they have had to trust some stranger to read all the items slowly and clearly, said their vote aloud for all to hear, and hoped the stranger marked down what they said?
According to the ADA, polling places have to be accessible to all, and yet, they aren't. Less than half.
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Date: 2006-02-28 12:16 am (UTC)