NYS Independent Living Council, Inc.

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Upcoming Committee meetings:

Accessible Transportation on primary and election days – Tuesday, July 24th 1:30 PM
Public Voting Education – Monday June 25th 10:00 AM; Monday July 23rd 10:00 AM
Polling Place Access – Wednesday July 11th 10:00 AM
Poll Worker Training – Friday July 20th 12:00 PM
Accessible Voting Machines – Wednesday July 18th 11:00 AM

There may be an additional two subcommittees forming: Personal Barriers to Voting and a Coordinating Committee. An attachment and more details will follow. Please let me know if you are interested in either one of these two committees. For those of you who had to leave early or who were not able to attend; you are welcome to join as many subcommittees as you would like.

Please mark your calendars. The phone number for the first round of conference calls will be: 1-877-239-6423. The participant pass code will be 3358847.
Just a reminder the Public Education committee is meeting on Monday June 25th at 10am. Hope to speak with you there.

Please note the attachment that contains the poll worker Training minutes has only partial minutes-more complete notes will be forthcoming.

Please read through the descriptions of the subcommittees which are attached to this email and decide which one(s) you would like to join. In addition, I have listed the dates, times and access codes for each meeting. Feel free to RSVP and let me know which committees you would like to attend by telephone.

At the bottom of this page are the following items: Please read the attachments

Summary of the June 4th event.
Minutes of the June 4th subcommittee meetings.
Description of the subcommittees and upcoming projects to be worked on.

Thank You for all your interest and participation,
Susan Cohen
Project Coordinator
NYSILC
518-427-1060
suec@nysilc.org
fax # 427-1139

Attachments:

Summary of Voting Issues and Solutions.doc
Summary of June 4th Event New Yorker's with Disabilities Getting Equal Voting Access.htm
PollingPlaceAccessGroupJune4th.doc
Accessible transportation group.doc
Accessible Voting Machine committee.doc
Public education committee.doc