ID: photo of a person in a wheelchair voting at a wheelchair height voting booth.
“This isn’t just a Detroit issue, and this isn’t just a ‘disability issue.’ This is a democracy issue. And it’s happening across the country.
For too long, we’ve seen issues of accessibility sidelined in voting-rights advocacy, or, worse, used in bad faith to shut down polling places that are already too few and far between.
There is a troubling history in our country of pitting accessibility against election integrity: if it’s easy to vote, the argument goes, then some of those votes must be illegitimate. This idea, of course, has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked, but misinformation persists, and it acts as a barrier to meaningful change—making it harder for everyone to access their vote.”
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