One lady in the group of about 9 of us that were walking towards the polling place asked the question, “Can I go vote?” His reply made me laugh, “Do you know how to vote on Prop 8?” while hold a No on 8 bumper sticker in his hands.

I laughed and said “Get out of our way so we can vote.” Wish everyone laughed in the group and believe it or not one of the voters in our group said I was going to vote No up until now. They have to let People vote (as we can see now with the protest they really did not want People to vote - so maybe it was like the Black Panthers; however, we need a new name for them).

JimboOC he did not have to fight to vote - the Community came together and delivered a voting booth to his home. This story is about how the Community comes together for others. The other solution would be to spend $5 Million on additional machines (based on the average mentioned in the next article).

Before you start attacking the polling workers who likely did not have a computer science degree nor would you want to see some poll worker TAMPERING with a voting machine as you cast your own.

Can you picture seeing a poll worker with a screwdriver in his hand taking apart the machine? You would have a lot of thoughts racing through your head on what exactly the person was doing to the machine. That headline would of made some news.

However, maybe Teri has a point that another $5 Million for “backup” machines would of avoided the entire problem.

I like the headline that the Community still cares to help People.

Everyone involved in getting a voting booth set up in his home are hero’s. The Registrar Voters Office needs to acknowledge them all.

This is such a great story about how People came together to make sure your husband could vote at his home of all places. However, he was lucky that he had such a caring community to help him. Who knows how many election regulations they broken removing the machine from the polling place to bring it to your husband but they did not care about the rules and went over and above to help each other.

In the future he might not be so lucky and not be able to vote if the machine is broken. By getting an absentee ballot he then has even more choices on the way he elects to cast his ballot. He can still surrender the ballot at the polling place and vote there in person if the machine is working.

I am surprised that they even arranged for him to go to another polling place. This was an amazing group of people that helped your husband.

Does he get his Election Pamphlet in audio format? This might also help him fully understand each thing that he is voting on instead of relying on others and their opinions.

It might take time to learn another language that can enable him to be more involved as it seems he already has motivation to do such with his life.

Again this is an amazing story of People caring for someone else.

How much does the OC Registrar Voters Office spend of our tax dollars (seeing this is the tax dollar watchdog forum) in accommodatingly different languages(since Braille is considered a language)?

In the case referenced here it merely looks like it was volunteer expense in helping him vote; however, it would be good to see that expense and talk about it.

I thought a few years ago the Braille Institute had messed up on the ballots or something in the printing

For the record the headphones in my booth worked.

Again, it is wonderful that the Community comes together to help others and make it possible for them to vote.

This would never happen just 10 years ago.