Arizona "audit" looking for someone to read 50,000 Braille ballots - CNN

[underpants]

No link. Part of a report on air by Kyung Lah. She’s been there for weeks doing excellent reporting.

Apparently Cyber Ninja says they are near the end of this fraudit but they have 50,000 ballots in Braille. They need someone who can read Braille* which can’t be very hard to find seeing as how 50,000 people in Maricopa county voted using it. They’ve known about these ballots from the beginning , according to Lah, but they never got around to preparing to review them.

*I’m guessing regular Braille not contracted or UEB.

[Midnight Writer]

1. The blind leading the willfully blind.

[Silent3]

2. Gee, no special expert on Braille "kinematics"...

...in their talented entourage?

[Blue_true]

3. Pardon me if I sound stupid, I have never worked with a blind person nor have one

in my family.

But isn’t Braille raised text? If so, shouldn’t a person who isn’t blind immediately see how a person that is blind voted?

[dsc]

4. It would be more analogous to raised Morse code

But I would have assumed the English would be on the ballot as well as the braille

[Blue_true]

5. I believe that they are fishing for anything to use to cast doubts on the official outcome. nt

[underpants]

8. Braille is a code and yes id think they'd have print as well

So the blind or low vision voter could have assistance if needed.

[underpants]

6. Yes. It would be standard just like a regular printed ballot

Once you’ve figured out how one works the others should follow. Also, I think you still vote with an ink pen not a stylus (it makes the bumps by hand).

Braille is actually very simple - sets of 10 - and with a cheat card a sighted person could figure it out pretty easily.

[Blue_true]

7. Thanks. I learned something. nt

[underpants]

10. Real quick real simple

There are 6 dots
1-4
2-5
3-6

A-J is 10 letters. In numbers A is 1, I is 9, J is 0

A is the 1 dot
One row below - K is the 1 and 3. L is the same as B but with a 3 dot
Next row U is A with a 3 and a 6. That line follows with 3 and 6s. W is an outlier because there was no W in the French alphabet when Braille invented it. He was 13 years old by the way.

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[Blue_true]

14. I wondered why "r" and "w" were the opposite of each other.

Do you know why “r” was chosen as the mirror image for “w”? Looking at the system, it seems the easiest to use.

On edit, I noticed that “p” and “v” are mirrors.

[underpants]

15. r follows the format - its h with a 3 dot

W was created later and from I’ve found no one is sure who when or where it was added. I think it just happens to mirror r.

[susanr516]

24. All a sighted person needs is a card with the Braille alphabet to read the ballots

I have a cousin who is legally blind. When we were kids, he told me, "I have a book that you can't read." He is 4 yrs older than me, but I'm an Aspie with hyperlexia, so I haughtily told him I could read anything he could. He handed me the book. Dots on a page. Then he took the book back from me and read me the story. Being an Aspie, I immediately became obsessed with learning to read Braille. My aunt was kind enough to type out the Braille alphabet with the letters underneath them. I never learned to read while using only my fingers, but I did learn to recognize the letters by sight. It would go slowly, but it's doable.

[underpants]

26. ✅

Yes. It’s doable. Not with this crowd though.

[LiberalFighter]

9. I'm not blind but a seeing person should be able to figure it out.

Ballots are printed in a specific order for each precinct or voting district. Each ballot is printed with the specific precinct or voting district on it. The same would apply for those that are blind. Although I believe they use special machines to cast the ballot. Either way when the ballot is marked the mark would be for one person.

[dsc]

11. Some states rotate order

Not sure if AZ is one

[LiberalFighter]

16. It doesn't look like. Even if they did rotate...

there would be only a minimum number of rotations and there would be a key to identify that rotation on the ballot.

And the purpose of including a key would be to make fraud even more difficult by outsiders.

[underpants]

13. "figure it out" is the key

You would stand out amongst the crowd doing the audit.

No it’s not that complicated and everything on ballots is standard. They must have not even looked into them or something

[Hekate]

12. What fresh hell is this?

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

17. You mean they have braille ballots and they did not have people to count them in the first place?

50,000 ballots in braille means 50,000 blind people they could ask to read them.

I am sure there probably are a couple of blind Republicans or Qanon's who would be happy to count votes.

My blind friend is going to laugh her ass of when I tell her about this.

[underpants]

20. I tried to allude to that in the OP

Also, like any other ballot they should be standard. Once you figured out how one works they should all be the same. But that’s just me.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

21. The ones in Washington's state are punch cards for blind people.

They are allowed to have someone in the booth to read to them.

My friend says it is easy.

[underpants]

22. I read a ballot to a woman in 2012

She couldn’t read. I was her ride to and from the poll too.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

23. My friend either rides the bus or goes with a friend.

[kentuck]

18. That seems like an unusually high number of blind folks for Maricopa County?

Is that where they plan on making up their shortfall??

[underpants]

19. That's about 1%

Maricopa County is 4.5 Million people.
The blind and low vision community is usually about 1% so 50,000 is about right. That is a high turnout for that group.

[Tribetime]

27. that was my 1st thought

Only 175,000 of 7,3000,000 legally blind or 1/4 of 1% in Arizona

[kentuck]

29. And that would assume that every blind person would vote.

Regardless of age or condition.

[Tribetime]

33. Only 10% of legally blind us braille

So only 17,000 in the whole state us braille....no way 50,000 in one county

[Arkansas Granny]

25. My dad was blind and my mother always helped him vote.

I don't recall ever hearing of Braille ballots, but that's been over 40 years ago, so things have probably changed.

[Tom Rinaldo]

28. Plenty of folks who can read them, the problem is finding folks who can ALTER them

Blue pens don't work on Braille ballots.

[MineralMan]

30. From the original story:

UPDATED: JUNE 14, 2021 AT 9:50 PM

(AZ Audit Screenshot)
PHOENIX — The hand recount of 2.1 million ballots from the 2020 Maricopa County election has been completed, an Arizona Senate spokesman said Monday.

Three boxes of Braille ballots — about 50 to 60 in total — were left to be counted along with large-type, overseas military and duplicated ballots but all others had gone through the process, which began April 23.

https://ktar.com/story/4496413/recount-done-for-2-1-million-ballots-in-audit-of-maricopa-county-election/

I think someone may have gotten that number wrong to come up with 50,000 braille ballots. Maybe they're counting all, including large-type, overseas military and duplicated ballots.

I doubt very much that there were 50,000 braille ballots in Maricopa County.

[lagomorph777]

32. Are they also looking for somebody who can read large type?

..or maybe somebody who isn't willfully blind?

[malaise]

31. There was no audit

There was a highly suspicious fraudit