Republicans Push Away Disabled Voters

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Republicans Push Away Disabled Voters

July 12, 2023 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 45 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/12/republicans-push-away-disabled-voters/

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“Republican efforts to restrict voting have sparked a backlash among people with disabilities, hurting the party’s appeal to a key group of swing voters,” Bloomberg reports.

“Disability rights advocates say new laws to reduce early in-person voting, restrict vote-by-mail and ban curbside voting — in response to Donald Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud — have angered voters with disabilities.”

“Disabled voters make up a sizable, diverse group, with nearly 16 million casting ballots in the 2022 midterms.”

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[XanaDUer2]

1. Banning curbside will mess us up nt

[Maraya1969]

2. Now is the time for disabled people to sue.

[Justice]

13. I agree. DOJ Analyzing Barriers to Voting for People with Disabilities with NIST and EAC

https://www.justice.gov/voting/accessibility-voting

Analyzing Barriers to Voting for People with Disabilities

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) within the Department of Commerce is evaluating the steps needed to ensure that the online Federal Voter Registration Form is accessible to people with disabilities. NIST—in consultation with the Department of Justice, the Election Assistance Commission, and other agencies—is also analyzing barriers to private and independent voting for people with disabilities, including access to voter registration, voting technology, voting by mail, polling locations, and poll worker training.

Find out more here: https://www.nist.gov/itl/voting/executive-order-promoting-access-voting

[Takket]

3. the disabled are a "key group of swing voters"?

I would of thought disabled persons were solid blue already. is that not true?

[mentalsolstice]

4. I expect this OP to sink fast.

PWDs (persons with disabilities) of all the discriminated minorities get little to no attention. Unfortunately, even here on DU, posts about our plight sink in 1/100th of the time it took the Titanic to sink. #rantoff

[Hekate]

7. Kick the posts when you see them. Cross-post when appropriate to groups that move more slowly...

… than GD.

That should help.

[CatWoman]

11. K; R

[Sympthsical]

5. California's sytem is very accomodating in this way

With mail-in ballots, they can be prepared with the help of a family member or caregiver and then dropped off either at a box or polling place the morning of the election. There are signatures and things involved on the sealed ballot if help has been provided in preparation, but it allows homebound or those who need assistance writing a path to voting.

When I did a lot of work with the elderly and disabled, it's one of the things we'd ask if they needed help with.

Of course, California is crazy easy. I just have to get the ballot from my mailbox and then toss it back in the mailbox. But it is important to remember that not everyone can easily manage even that trip back and forth.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. It should be so easy in every state.

[Wounded Bear]

6. K & R...nt

[KJohnson]

8. The Bible's down on the disabled, too

I don't think for a minute that Repubs are doing it because of the Bible, but some of their base accept the Bible as the Word of God.
Here's a excerpt from Leveticus 21.

16 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God.

18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,

20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the Lord made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.

22 He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

23 Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. And then that troublemaker Jesus came along and said

[3] And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
[4] Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
[5] Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/kjv/kjv-idx?type=citation&book=Matthew&chapno=7&startverse=3&endverse=5

[gopiscrap]

15. welcome to DU

[Renew Deal]

9. I was doing GOTV one time and I had to pick someone up that voted from the car

They wouldn't have voted if they didn't get a ride and couldn't vote from the curb.

[CaptainTruth]

14. Well, they don't fit into the GOP Superiority Syndrome.