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Flint agrees to increase accessibility at polling sites

 

11:48 AM, May 21, 2012  |

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David Ashenfelter

 

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David Ashenfelter

 

Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

 

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The City of Flint has agreed to make polling places more accessible for the mobility impaired in time for the November presidential election, the U.S. Attorney’s

Office in Detroit announced today.

 

Acting on a complaint, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division conducted a study which showed a substantial number of Flint polling places were not

accessible to people in wheelchairs.

 

The city recently signed a legal document pledging to make all of its polling places accessible to the mobility impaired head off a federal lawsuit.

 

“Voting is the foundation of democracy,” U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said in the announcement. “This agreement will help ensure that people with disabilities

have the opportunity to cast their votes at polling places, alongside their neighbors, and have their voices heard.”

 

There was no immediate comment from the City of Flint.

 

Contact David Ashenfelter:

dashenfelter at freepress.com