[il-talk] FW: Trouble Voting /Tell Your Story Testify

[David Meyer]

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Subject: FW: Trouble Voting /Tell Your Story Testify 

 

All:  The Election Assistance Commission is soliciting input about people
with disabilities encountering barriers in voting.  You can email the
Commission with your particulars if this has ever happened to you.  This is
a great opportunity to prompt change.  Please share the announcement below
widely.  Thank you.

Amy

Amy F. Peterson

Senior Attorney

PAAT Project Manager

Equip for Equality

20 N. Michigan Avenue #300

Chicago, IL  60602

(312) 895-7324

amy at equipforequality.org 

 

From: James Charles Dickson [mailto:james.charles.dickson at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 8:37 PM
To: james.charles.dickson at gmail.com
Subject: Trouble Voting /Tell Your Story Testify 

 

 

Circulate widely ; email twitter Facebook etc. 

Did You Ever Have Trouble Voting?

Imagine being 30 years old and a person with a disability and you go to your
polling place.  You tell the poll worker your name and the poll worker
responds to you by saying "you need to take a reading test before you can
vote."  Or you're a person that uses a wheelchair and you go to your polling
place and there are two stairs going into the building.

Unfortunately, in 2016 these are still true stories for people with
disabilities!  Have you ever had any issues?  Well the Election Assistance
Commission needs to hear from you.  The Voting Rights Subcommittee
repeatedly hears of problems that people with disabilities are having trying
to cast a private and unassisted ballot!

So here is the opportunity to try to change what is going on.  The Election
Assistance Commission (EAC) will be holding a public hearing on voting
accessibility on April 27. If you have had a negative experience while
casting your ballot, you have the opportunity to inform the EAC about the
difficulties you encountered. If you would like to share your experience
with the EAC, please send an email to listen at eac.gov
<mailto:listen at eac.gov?subject=Voting%20Access>  identifying the polling
place where you experienced the issue and describing the problem you had
while trying to cast your vote.