Early Voting While Deaf-Blind/Blind

CaspHer
6 min readOct 20, 2020

By: CaspHer

October 17,2020

October 19, 2020

For the first time I’ve had a chance to vote early amid the Coronavirus and everything else happening. While doing so, I have faced some challenges along the way, and I will try to go into enough detail as possible with my experience.

While this year hasn’t been anyone’s favorite or at least most of everyone’s least favorite, I can say there have been a lot of truths exposed about people and so forth. A lot of fake people are having their masks ripped off and a lot of wrongdoing has hit the light.

What’s that famous saying? What’s done in the dark will come to light. That is currently what is happening with many folks near and far.

A few days ago, I had a friend offer to help me plan to vote. I was honestly uncertain of how I could execute this plan to vote amid the virus as someone with deafness and blindness. I was glad he asked. I took up the offer after investigating some of the early voting locations in Boston. It turns out there were plenty of locations to participate but the other question was about doing so with accessibility. I really appreciated this plan to vote so I went for the first day of early voting. Afterall, I couldn’t be too picky since he was taking time out of his weekend to help me out. We found the nearest location which was a mile away from my house and we walked together. This location was also equipped with an accessible voting machine which is why we…

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