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Polls To Offer Video Magnifiers

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: October 12, 2008

Video magnifiers will help visually impaired voters cast ballots at all early voting sites beginning Oct. 20.

The service, intended for visually impaired voters who still possess some useful vision, is in addition to the audio ballot or magnifier sheet offered at the polls in the past, Supervisor of Elections Brian E. Corley said in a statement.

Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind teamed up with elections officials to provide the service for early voting, which will continue through Nov. 1.
Video magnifiers use a camera to magnify printed material and display it on a television screen or computer monitor.

The magnifiers, on loan from the Lighthouse nonprofit agency, are generally useful to someone who has at least the ability to read the largest headlines in a newspaper, officials said.

The Pasco County early voting locations are:

•Supervisor of Elections Office, Suite 110, West Pasco Government Center, 7530 Little Road, New Port Richey

•Hudson Regional Library, 8012 Library Road
•South Holiday Branch Library, 4649 Mile Stretch Drive
•East Pasco Government Center, 14236 Sixth St, Dade City

•Central Pasco Professional Center, 4111 Land O' Lakes Blvd, Room 105, Land O' Lakes

•Village Market of Wesley Chapel, 5325 Village Market, Wesley Chapel

•New River Branch Library, 34043 State Road 54, Wesley Chapel

In addition, a workshop for visually impaired voters will be from 10 a.m. until noon Wednesday at the Lighthouse office, 8610 Galen Wilson Blvd., Port Richey.

The workshop will offer instruction on how to use the audio ballot at the polls, tips for voting by mail, and how and why to update signatures.

For information on the workshop, call the Lighthouse office at (727) 815-0303. For election information call 1-800-851-8754 or check the supervisor of elections office Web site, www.pascovotes.com.

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