[Iabs-talk] FW: The National Council on Disability Wants to Hear About YourVoting Experiences !

[David Meyer]

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Subject: The National Council on Disability Wants to Hear About YourVoting
Experiences !

Below is information about a consumer survey to be filled out by People with
Disabilities regarding their voting experiences this year.

Amy



Voting Access Questionnaire

The election's around the corner. The National Council on Disability (NCD),
in collaboration with the National Disability Rights Network
(NDRN) and EIN SOF Communications, Inc., wants to hear about YOUR voting
experiences during the upcoming 2012 General Election. Through a brief,
open-ended questionnaire, to be completed following your vote, NCD and our
partners will collect information about your experiences, including any
physical, attitudinal, or other barriers you may have faced when attempting
to exercise your constitutional right to vote. We will issue a report based
on the findings of the questionnaire in early 2013.

A Government Accounting Office report found in 2008 that just over a quarter
of polling places, only 27 percent to be exact, are fully accessible. The
Federal Election Commission reports that, in violation of state and federal
laws, more than 20,000 polling places across the nation are inaccessible,
depriving people with disabilities of their fundamental right to vote.

NCD and its partners would like to learn how people with disabilities fare
in this election, four years later.

To take or share the questionnaire, please go to:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1053447/Voting<http://www.ncd.gov/linkWarning?
target=http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/1053447/Voting>

If you have any questions, please contact NDRN at 202.408.9514, ext 130.

For more information about the National Council on Disability, go to:
http://www.ncd.gov 

Get regular updates via NCD's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/NCDgov 

Follow NCD on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/NatCounDis 



Amy F. Peterson
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Equip for Equality
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