I hope all of our readers took time out of their busy schedules today to vote in this important midterm election. Feel free to use this stem to post your observations. Who do you feel has your back? How was your experience at your local polling station? What are your hopes (or fears) for the future?
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My wife, who is blind, used the talking voting machine to fill out her bubblescan ballot, with no real difficulty. I'd forgotten that our polling place had that, actually, because we voted absentee in the primary. We're not sure if anyone else uses it, but it got a nice early workout this time.
We vote in a neighborhood senior center, so the accessibility is quite good. (On the day of the 2008 presidential election, I noticed one of the poll workers was a wheelchair user.) There was also a sign today offering curbside voting, as another accommodation.
Jonathan, Thanks for sharing the story of voting with your wife. I haven't been following the revision of the voting system in the State of New York, but am glad to hear that disability access has been kept in mind. I will make a point of asking about the talking voting machine next time I'm at the polls. Penny, I didn't see any offer of curbsite voting, although with the aging of the population of Long Island it makes a lot of sense.
Huh, wonder if it's a California thing. Saw another "Curbside Voting Available" sign at the next-nearest polling place, a Jewish Community Center--they had also set up a big temporary ramp. (The JCC is not accessible most days, except through a back entrance into the basement, and then no elevators from there.)
BTW, the weather in Southern California is gorgeous today--low 80s and sunny in my zip--so the turnout shouldn't be hampered by weather.
Congrats to Californians on bucking the national trend rightward.
Were we bucking the national trend, or starting the next trend? ;) Either way, yeah, it's different here.
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