Thank you for sharing those links! I like to think I would have paid special attention to accessible voting stuff either way, but reading your first post will definitely help it stick in my brain a bit harder. Iowa still uses mostly paper ballots, and I remember seeing a wheelchair-accessible voting stall at previous elections, but I'll have to pay more attention for the other accessible voting options!
Oh nice, I didn't know that! I've never had a very difficult time voting, TBH, and didn't even know until a few years ago that Iowans get up to three hours paid time off to vote, if we want to. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a holdover from the Democratic governor we had prior to 2008, when he left to join Obama's administration at the White House. (We ended up with someone substantially worse, alas, so here's hoping that we can get the bad one replaced this year 🤞)
I haven't gotten contacted one way or another yet about my application, but I'm hoping I'll be accepted! I worked Registration for AnimeIowa for a good number of years, so I expect it'll be a pretty similar experience. Greet people, look them up in the system, make sure they know what they're doing, get them set up with all of their materials, and send them on their way (to the voting booth, in this case). Sometimes I may need to do a little more interacting, depending on various situations, but that's how things shake out sometimes.
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Oh nice, I didn't know that! I've never had a very difficult time voting, TBH, and didn't even know until a few years ago that Iowans get up to three hours paid time off to vote, if we want to. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a holdover from the Democratic governor we had prior to 2008, when he left to join Obama's administration at the White House. (We ended up with someone substantially worse, alas, so here's hoping that we can get the bad one replaced this year 🤞)
I haven't gotten contacted one way or another yet about my application, but I'm hoping I'll be accepted! I worked Registration for AnimeIowa for a good number of years, so I expect it'll be a pretty similar experience. Greet people, look them up in the system, make sure they know what they're doing, get them set up with all of their materials, and send them on their way (to the voting booth, in this case). Sometimes I may need to do a little more interacting, depending on various situations, but that's how things shake out sometimes.