Your Right to Assistance at the Polls
Here is a video from Rooted in Rights that describes the rights of people with disabilities at the polls. As this video states, you have a right to assistance and accommodations while voting. If you feel that your rights have not been respected at your polling place, please contact ADAP for assistance.
Episode 1 of "Vote for Access" is here! First up, host Imani Barbarin talks about attitudes voters with disabilities have to just… deal with. Have you ever been asked why you vote? If you’ve ever been asked why you need to vote, you’ll know what she means.
In this episode of "Vote for Access," host Imani Barbarin talks about the accessibility barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from getting the information they need to make informed voting choices. “The fact that accessibility isn’t considered first is a problem," says Imani. "The fact that it often isn’t considered at all is unacceptable.”
Alabama is in the house on this episode of "Vote for Access"! Watch as one of our neighbors, who has a visual impairment, describes the problems she encounters when she goes to vote.
The most common way to vote is to go into a polling both and fill out a form, push a button, or pull a lever. But alternative methods exist. Here’s what you need to know as a disabled voter in the latest "Vote for Access" video.
This is the final episode of "Vote for Access" but it’s probably the most important. In speaking about voter suppression, host Imani Barbarin asks: "At what point do we realize that ignorance and apathy about persons with disabilities is another form of voter suppression? We want accessibility prioritized at all stages of the voting process. We want solutions.”