Does Your MS Make Voting Difficult? - Multiple Sclerosis Blog

October 22, 2012

Does Your MS Make Voting Difficult?

2012 is the first 100% mail-in ballot election in my adopted home state. I will forever miss the group civil action of standing on line and conversing with my precinct mates as we shuffled toward the voting booth. Ever since my parents first took us with them behind the curtains of the big, gray voting machines that were wheeled into the local elementary school so we could watch them flip levers and cast their votes, the act of filling out a ballot has been important to me.

The very first election for which I was eligible to vote was a presidential election and I haven?t missed a primary or general election since. Even while riding the wild waves of the Bering Sea, I would fill out my absentee form and send them back from a lonely post office on the Aleutian Islands.

While I resisted as long as I could ? opting to drop my ballot off at my polling place on Election Day rather than mail it in as soon as it was filled out ? I now accept and embrace the convenience.

This brings me to the topic of today?s blog: Does your MS make it difficult for you to cast your vote?

I know that some of us have difficulty getting out of the house. Relying on public paratransit can be a frustrating exercise. Reading, writing and filling in those bubbles are beyond some of us anymore.

I know there are ways to make it easier for us to cast our official ballots, but I?m wondering if your MS has gotten in the way before, if you are worried that it will this time and ? maybe even more important for the rest of us ? have you figured a way around these hurdles?

No matter which side of the candidates, races and initiatives you intend to tic the box, your disease should not bar you from your civic duty.

One final reminder; just a few more days to get your questions in for your chance to ?interview? me There have been some great questions and I look forward to seeing more from you.

Wishing you and your family the best of health.

Cheers

Trevis

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Source: http://www.everydayhealth.com/blog/trevis-life-with-multiple-sclerosis-ms/does-your-ms-make-voting-difficult/

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