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Sight-impaired voters can get ballot help
Brad Shannon, The Olympian May 15, 2008
- Voting machines designed to help the disabled cast ballots will be
available for three hours Friday at the Panorama retirement community for the
May 20 North Thurston Public Schools levy election. The AutoMARK machines let
a sight-impaired voter listen to ballot options and vote in secrecy. Machines
will be available from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Panorama's Quinault auditorium in
Lacey. The machines also are available at the Thurston County Courthouse and
by appointment before Tuesday's all-mail election. People wanting to use a
machine should call the county Auditor's Office at 360-786-5408, and a machine
can be brought to the voter's home or workplace. The machines read the ballot
choices to sight-impaired voters and also magnify the print, Auditor Kim Wyman
said. Voters using AutoMARK need to bring ballots with them. The auditor's
elections office also is running logic and accuracy tests at 10 a.m. today on
the ballot-tabulating machines that will count votes Tuesday evening. The test
is at the elections shop at 2915 29th Ave. S.W., Suite E, in Tumwater.
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Local dog becomes guide dog
Lisa
Pemberton,The Olympian February 13, 2008
- After a month of intensive training, Carla Dawson of Olympia and a black Labrador
retriever named Sequoia recently graduated from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael, Calif.
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- Rally urges funding for Braille, audio library
Kurt Ackerson, The Olympian April 5, 2007
- Holding signs that read “No Blind Left Behind” and “We Have One Library,” about
60 people rallied Wednesday at the Capitol to ask for more funding for
the Washington Talking Book & Braille Library. The library has not had a
budget increase in more than six years, the demonstrators said. nonprofit
statewide consumer organization for the blind or visually impaired.
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- Protect yourself from false charities
The Olympian January 29, 2007
- Attorney General Rob McKenna has filed suits against Veterans of Western
Washington, Blind Children Services of Puget Sound and four individuals
connected with those organizations.
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