Voter Rights
The right to vote in our country is fundamental to securing all of our other rights as Americans. Yet 4 to 6 million voters who went to the polls in 2000 never had their votes counted due to faulty registration lists, voting machine failures and inaccessible voting places/voting machines. Voters with disabilities often go to the polls only to find that the voting place, the booth and/or the format of the ballot itself is inaccessible to them. The UCP supported "Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001" (S-565/HR-1170) would remedy these problems by setting minimum voting rights that must be met throughout the nation.
The bill would require that by 2004 every voting machine must be accessible and afford independence and privacy to voters with disabilities and those who are language minorities. It would also enable all those who show up at the polls to vote and have those votes counted accurately.
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Documents:
- DPC Comments to the National Institute on Standards in Technology and the Election Assistance Commission Regarding Guidelines for voting Machine Accessibility for People with Cognitive Disabilities
- United Cerebral Palsy Launches DontBlockMyVote.org to Advance Equal Access for Voters with Disabilities (7/14/04)
- Help America Vote Act (HAVA) State Implementation Plans
- Why Vote?
- National Voter Registration, Section 7
- National Voter Registration Act Implementation
- ADA Checklist for Polling Places Provides Guidance on Polling Place Accessibility
- OCLB Voter's Primary Primer
- Guide to Improving Accessibility of Polling Places for Voters with Disabilities
- UCP Submits Comments to US Election Assistance Commission on Computerized Voting (5/5/04)
- DNC Launches Voting Rights Institute
- HHS to Award $13 Million to States to Improve the Voting Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities
- Disability Left Out of Election Reform?
- Nonpartisan Election Reform Legislation
- Provisional Balloting Ensures Every Voter's Vote is Counted
- Testimony on the Barriers to People with Disabilities at the Voting Booth
- What Motor Voter Says About Nonprofit Agencies
- Why Non-Profit Disability Services Agencies Must Register Their Customers To Vote
- Election Reform Legislation
- Washington, DC Implements Accessible Touchscreen Voting