Fw: Bazelon Center Publishes Voting Manual For Individuals with Disabilities

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Bazelon Center Publishes New Vote Manual

The Bazelon Center recently published a new vote manual which is an excellent resource for people with mental disabilities, advocates, family members, service providers, election officials, state and local mental health and aging authorities, state legislators and others.Providing comprehensive information regarding both state and federal laws, this guide is an excellent template on which other organizations can model a voting guide. The Bazelon booklet covers several broad topics which include voter rights, challenges to competency, voter assistance, and how to respond to rights violations. You can download digital copies and purchase hard copies by clicking the picture to the right or following the link http://www.bazelon. org/issues/ voting/index. htm .

About the Disability Vote ProjectDVP works in a non-partisan manner to eliminate the barriers to voting and, in close collaboration with coalition partners in states around the country, to increase political participation for individuals with disabilities. DVP aims to get people with disabilities registered to vote; strives to educate them on how to get to their polling places and what their rights are at the polling places; and works to make polling places accessible to voters with all disabilities.

About AAPD The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is the largest national nonprofit cross-disability member organization in the United States . It organizes the disability community to be a powerful force for change - politically, economically, and socially - and recognizes the value of working in broad coalitions to foster unity, leadership and impact. AAPD is dedicated to achieving total equality for and full participation of people with disability in all aspects of society, recognizing that this is the social justice issue of our time.

AAPD

Dickson

Vice President, Government Affairs

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