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Primary day!

Well it’s been almost a week but I survived the primary last Tuesday. Top two move to the general election in this first local election for our county Board of Education and I finished in 2nd! Mailed in ballots are still being counted but the margin between 1st and 2nd has shrunk to 4.4% or only 751 votes. Given I had no volunteers at the polls, the iPad I use with a voice app to talk died by mid-day (i was there all 13 hours) and the shutdown also shut down my planned doorknocking in March/April, I feel great coming in 2nd. Over 7000 people voted for the bottom three candidates so November is within reach! #campaigningwithdisability #speechdisability #Election #Disability #AAC

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Survived Facebook Live

Hey fellow Mighties! I am so excited to finally get involved in this fabulous community! My first story shoukd be showing up soon where I share a glimpse of what it’s like to be a person with a speech disability running in a local election ...during COVID-19. I wanted to share my exploits for several weeks now but last night helped motivate me to finally finish my draft and hit submit (at 2:30am). I had hosted my third Facebook Live meet & greet and people actually showed up and asked questions this time ...and I managed to respond without anyone bailing during the long pauses as I type my responses in my iPad’s voice app. Yay! I still don’t want to rewatch the video of myself but just knowing I could communicate with potential voters in real time was a great step forward.

#MightyTogether #Disability #AAC #speechdisability #campaigning #Cov ID19

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