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Disabled People Still Face Barriers to Online Voter Registration in Most States

by Truthout


Photo of smartphone taking pic of voting display

ID: Picture of only someone's arms in frame, holding a smartphone, taking a picture of a table with a Register to Vote display of stickers, pens, and pamphlets.


“Web access is overlooked, so I think about: How many people are we leaving behind because there are so many access barriers?” said Kenia Flores, a voting access and election protection fellow at Detroit Disability Power, a disability-led nonprofit focused on building political power in the disability community. The answer to that question is that shortcomings in web accessibility, alongside other common obstacles to accessing the polls, threaten to disenfranchise 40.2 million eligible disabled voters nationwide.


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