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Why Is It so Hard for 25% of Americans to Vote? - At the Polls Series

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4.8585 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

One in four American adults lives with a disability. And that doesn’t even include the fact that about 45% of Americans live with a chronic illness. During a global pandemic, that means that a huge portion of the electorate has health conditions that impact their ability to vote safely. A new act introduced in Congress has the potential to really help. It's called the Accessible Voting Act. In this episode of At the Polls, we're joined by Susan Mizner, Director of the ACLU's Disability Rights Project, and Curtis Chong, a longtime technologist and advocate for digital accessibility for all.

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0:00.0

The White House, the Congress, the prospect of change.

0:03.2

The importance of each and every vote.

0:04.7

Protect and to preserve our voting system.

0:07.5

From the ACLU, this is at the polls, a special mini-series on, you guessed it, voting.

0:15.1

I'm Molly McGrath, a voting rights lawyer and organizer, and your host for this series.

0:20.7

You're right to vote of all of our young people.

0:24.2

It belongs to you.

0:25.3

The machinery of democracy should work for everyone everywhere.

0:29.7

This week, we'll be answering the question, why is voting so inaccessible to people

0:35.0

with disabilities?

0:36.6

And stay tuned.

0:37.4

At the end of the episode, we'll answer a few listener questions. so inaccessible to people with disabilities. And stay tuned.

0:37.7

At the end of the episode, we'll answer a few listener questions.

0:44.4

Over the last few weeks, we've talked a lot about how to get every eligible voter to the polls.

0:50.1

But what if you've done everything you could to vote?

0:52.9

You registered on time, you researched your candidates,

0:55.6

you requested your ballot, and yet you still can't vote.

1:00.1

Transportation is an issue or I have some other physical disability

1:03.2

that I'm not able to leave my home.

1:04.6

The ballots aren't accessible.

1:06.1

This time I had trouble voting because there was only one wheelchair accessible booth.

1:10.0

All of these things are barriers.

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