[blindlaw] The Census does not track the blind

[James Pepper]

Well considering what Congress has been doing lately since when did
impractical come into the mix?



This is a simple civil rights issue and if you want the law try the Voting
Rights Act of 1965.  That law is enabled under the Rehabilitation Act of
1973 and the following laws have all required each state to provide
accessible voter registration forms for voting.  So get yourself into a
federal court and make this a civil rights issue.  Here are the laws:



Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

National Voter Registration Act of 1993

Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1996

The Help America Vote Act of 2002



The Voter Rights Act required information on race to be acquired to
administer the law.



It should be noted that the voter registration forms are to this day, not
accessible to the blind.  they simply refuse to do it!  Yes voting machines
are accessible but if you cannot register to vote without assistance or
without spending 1100 dollars for a copy of the full version of JAWS, you
cannot do it by yourself.  Meanwhile everyone else can and for free.  I
submit that the added cost to the blind is a Poll Tax.  Also you are
required to draw a map of where you live on the form.  That is a literacy
test!



James Pepper