PHOENIX – Sami McGinnis walked through a small conference hall and approached an accessible voting machine – a large screen connected to headphones and a controller with brightly colored buttons – determined to understand and improve her voting experience.

McGinnis, whose worsening vision makes even large-print ballots too hard to use, put on headphones and picked up the controller. She struggled to identify which buttons to push as instructed, as the audio directions moved to the next step before she was ready.

Even with help from a county elections worker, McGinnis couldn’t operate the machine. Frustrated, she put the controller down and took off the headphones.

“I don’t have color, and they say press, I think it’s the red select button,” she said, referring to her inability to see co

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