NPR's A Martinez speaks with Dom Kelly, co-founder and CEO of the advocacy group New Disabled South, about the disabled community's needs and demands ahead of the presidential election. One in six ...
MADISON, Wis. (CBS 58) -- A group of disabled voters say they've experienced problems when someone else tries to return their absentee ballot, leading advocacy groups to speak out about federal laws ...
Gov. Tony Evers has designated Sept. 11–15 as Disability Voting Rights Week, according to a Governor’s Proclamation signed Sept 5. “Making voting accessible for people of all abilities,” the ...
National disability rights organizations are urging the Senate to revise the massive House-passed election reform bill to allow an internet-based voting option for their constituents, who represent ...
People with disabilities have long faced some of the greatest barriers to voting in our elections. From inaccessible polling places and a lack of working accessible voting machines to onerous ...
At the core of every American movement toward equality of civil rights is access to the ballot. For citizens with disabilities, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act began to dismantle barriers to ...
RICHMOND, Va. -- Monday marks the start of Disability Voting Rights Week, a week designed to address the challenges disabled voters face and reduce the barriers that still exist in the voting process.
September 12-16, 2022 is Disability Voting Rights Week. It may sound just like another interesting item on the annual calendar of modern cultural observances and “awareness days.” And people ...
Voters check in at Milford High School on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, for the New Hampshire Presidential Primary. Last year, New Hampshire lawmakers united to expand the use of accessible voting machines ...
In the battle over the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on election rules, some Republicans have taken the implicit position that voters just need to suck it up and trudge to the polls on Election ...
One in six eligible American voters now has a disability, and a third of eligible voters either has a disability or lives with someone with a disability. This voting bloc is growing as the population ...