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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: normal;
COLOR: windowtext; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Casting
ballots at home or in person sometimes a difficult
decision<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></H2>
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style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 12.85pt; background-size:
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style="BOX-SIZING: border-box"><SPAN class=gmail-byline1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">by Deborah Schoch, <A
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px"
href="https://www.aarp.org/"><B><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">AARP</SPAN></B></A>, October 19,
2020</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY:
arial,sans-serif"> <SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size: initial; background-origin:
initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">More than 90 minutes
into
his wait, Doll, 68, blacked out and collapsed. An intrepid voter, he
recovered
and returned to the line in the autumn chill, only to fall again. This time,
paramedics took him to a hospital where he stayed for three days. His
doctors
would tell him that the episode was likely due to his Parkinson's
disease.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Doll is one of a
record
38.3 million people with disabilities who are eligible to vote in this
fall's
election, almost 20 percent more than in 2008. They will constitute close to
one-sixth of the total electorate, according to Rutgers University
experts.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="background-size: initial; background-origin: initial;
background-clip: initial"><SPAN
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115%"><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<H4
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; COLOR: ; MARGIN: 4.7pt 0in; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: windowtext;
LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Resources
for Voters With Disabilities<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></H4>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><B
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">• </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The bipartisan <A
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px"
href="https://www.eac.gov/election-officials/tips-empowering-voters-disabilities-2020-general-election-and-covid-19-crisis"
target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">U.S. Election Assistance
Commission</SPAN></A> was created as part of the 2002 Help America Vote Act.
Its
website features guidance for voters with
disabilities.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><B
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">• </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Election rules vary
widely among states and local districts, so the <A
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px"
href="https://wwwaapd.com/advocacy/voting/upcoming-elections-2/"
target=_blank><SPAN style="COLOR: windowtext">American Association of People
with Disabilities</SPAN></A> offers details.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><B
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">• </SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The <A
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px"
href="https://www.ndrn.org/" target=_blank><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">National Disability Rights Network</SPAN></A>,
made up
of the nation's largest providers of legal advocacy services for those with
disabilities, provides links to its state offices.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">This is also the <A
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px"
href="https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/info-2020/coronavirus-voting.html"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">first general election in the age of
COVID-19</SPAN></A>, which makes it more challenging than usual for people
with
disabilities to vote:<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<UL style="BOX-SIZING: border-box" type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Electronic voting
systems that allow voters with disabilities to cast their ballots from
home
are available only in certain states. Federal law requires accessible
equipment for voting to be available at polling places but not at
home.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Some voters with
mobility or sight issues are less likely to accept offers of rides to the
polls, for fear of contracting the virus.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </LI></UL>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Because of these
concerns, like many Americans balancing the <A
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px"
href="https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2020/coronavirus-facts.html"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext">issues surrounding the pandemic</SPAN></A> with
their
desire to vote, people with disabilities are having to decide between going
to
the polls or turning to absentee or mail-in ballots.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<H3
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; COLOR: ; MARGIN: 9.45pt 0in 4.7pt;
background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip:
initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: windowtext;
LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Finding
the best way to vote<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></H3>
<P
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size: initial; background-origin:
initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Tracy Carcione, who
is
blind, tried both those options this year in an attempt to find the safest,
most
accessible way to vote.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Carcione, 59, lives
in
Teaneck, New Jersey, where the 2020 spring local elections were held by
mail.
She contacted election officials and got an online electronic ballot that
allowed her to vote safely and privately at home.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">That ballot,
developed by
Seattle-based Democracy Live, is being used this fall in 20 states,
including
Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida, said President Bryan
Finney.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">But New Jersey didn't
offer those electronic ballots for its July presidential primary, so
Carcione
went to her local polling place.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"There's supposed to
be
an accessible machine there, but the poll workers don't know how to switch
it
into accessible mode,” she said. So she had to squeeze in the voting booth
in
between a Republican poll worker and a Democratic one who helped her vote,
not
an ideal system in a pandemic — or to preserve
privacy.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"All polling
locations
are required to have accommodations that allow voters to vote independently
and
privately,” said Bridgett King, an expert in political participation and an
associate professor at Auburn University in Alabama.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">But a study three
years
ago found that of 137 polling sites inspected, most had voting stations that
could impede private voting. For instance, at stations not designed for
wheelchairs, some voters would have to ask for help, thereby potentially
allowing others to see how they were voting, according to the US. Government
Accountability Office report.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Voting in the general
election proved easier for Carcione, who used an electronic mail-in ballot
that
she printed out at a United Parcel Service office, since she doesn't have a
printer.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT:
115%"><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<H3
style="MARGIN: 9.45pt 0in 4.7pt; background-size: initial;
background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: windowtext;
LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">An
issue of trust<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></H3>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The dramatic increase
in
mail-in ballots — catalyzed by worries about COVID-19 — would seem ideal for
voters with disabilities.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">But some people have
to
ask for help filling out their ballots and may not be able to verify that it
was
marked and mailed as they wanted, said Michelle Bishop, voter access and
engagement manager at the National Disability Rights Network, a coalition of
the
nation's largest providers of legal advocacy services for those with
disabilities.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"No one should have
to
make that leap of faith when they're voting,” she
said.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Sarah Trites has
already
cast an absentee ballot in the Nov. 3 election, unhampered by her wheelchair
and
poor vision<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The 54-year-old
resident
of Sabattus, Maine, regularly turns to her mother, who lives nearby, to help
fill out her ballots. She trusts her mother to record her votes accurately,
she
said: “She and I are definitely on the same
wavelength."<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Trites cast her first
vote for president in 1984 and has voted in every presidential election
since,
and in countless other elections, too.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"I'm passionate about
voting,” said Trites, who is active in local political and disability
groups.
Other Maine voters with disabilities share that zeal, with more than 65
percent
of them voting in November 2018, the highest share of any state, researchers
found.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"All polling
locations
are required to have accommodations that allow voters to vote independently
and
privately."<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="background-size: initial; background-origin: initial;
background-clip: initial"><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT:
115%"><SPAN
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box">— Bridgett King</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; LINE-HEIGHT:
115%"><SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">West Virginia came in
last in 2018, with less than 38 percent of its eligible voters with
disabilities
casting ballots. It also has the highest rate of disability — nearly 25
percent
— of any state.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The state is largely
rural, with winding roads, which can discourage all voters, said Regina
Desmond,
senior advocate at Disability Rights of West
Virginia.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Her group scored a
major
victory with the February 2020 signing of a bill allowing state voters with
physical disabilities to vote using electronic absentee
ballots.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The first in the
state to
try the technology was Terra Muncy, 56, of Belle, who has rheumatoid
arthritis
and has used a wheelchair for 18 years. Voting in person, she sometimes
found
low ballot stations that worked well, she said.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"But sometimes there
wasn't one, which means I was having to reach up, and people can see over
your
head exactly what you're doing,” she said.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">During the spring
primary
election, Muncy was able to cast her ballot using the Democracy Live
electronic
system on her tablet while sitting on her front
porch.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">She recently used the
same system for the general election, this time via her phone from her
kitchen,
since it was too cold outside, she said.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">To vote in person,
some
voters with disabilities may have to take buses or subways, another
challenge.
Transit to polling places may be particularly taxing for Black and Latino
voters
with disabilities who may not have access to private or public
transportation,
said King at Auburn University.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; COLOR: ; MARGIN: 9.45pt 0in 4.7pt;
background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip:
initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif; COLOR: windowtext;
LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">Voting
curbside<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></H3>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Doll was undeterred
by
his blackout and hospital stay. He returned to the Summit County Board of
Elections in Akron when he recovered, this time to vote from the comfort of
his
car.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">The board had
curbside
voting available at the time Doll first tried to vote, but it has expanded
the
parking sites, added signs about the service and ordered still more signs,
said
Lance Reed, the board's director.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">Doll commended the
board
staff for bringing a ballot to his car and helping him fill it out, because
his
hands shook badly, a symptom of Parkinson's. Yet even if he can vote
electronically from home, he said, he would still want to go vote
curbside.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P
style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">"I'm old school,” he
said
of going to a polling place in person. “This makes you feel more normal,
rather
than handicapped.”<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="BOX-SIZING: border-box; MARGIN: 0in 0in 4.7pt; background-size:
initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial,sans-serif">When he finished
voting,
the staff took the ballot inside to process, he said. “Then they came out
and
gave me an ‘I voted’ sticker."<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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