ST. LOUIS — When Barbara Sheinbein, 64, went to vote in the April election her friend drove her to the polls. Her friend went inside the polling location in St. Louis County and told a worker that Sheinbein wanted to use an accessible voting machine because she is blind. She can’t read a printed ballot.
“We have a little issue,” the worker said. One of the scanners had broken down, so they had replaced it with the accessible one. There wasn’t an accessible one for her to use.
Sheinbein declined to have someone read the ballot to hear and mark her choices. She wanted to keep her vote private. Instead, they ended up driving to another location that had a working machine.
