NY: State files voting plan with court

[Wilms]

The AAPD is crying that 1.3 million with a disability voted in NY in 2000, but 2 million didn't.

So? Is that much different than the balance of the population? :shrug:

I think NY is doing a great job avoiding having a HAVA job done on them.

State files voting plan with court

By MARC HUMBERT

AP Political Writer

April 10, 2006, 4:27 PM EDT

ALBANY, N.Y. -- State officials filed a plan Monday with a federal judge outlining how New York would comply with requirements that disabled voters can independently participate in this fall's elections.

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Under the state plan, marking devices or other systems allowing the disabled to vote would not necessarily be available at every polling place, but would be at some locations within "each town and city in the county, in each (state) Assembly District in the county ... or in polling places intended to serve concentrations of disabled voters."

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Brehm said four companies have expressed an interest in supplying devices that will allow the disabled to vote independently. The state board has yet to authorize any of them for use.

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Relying on information from the American Association of People with Disabilities, Williams said an estimated 1.3 million New Yorkers with disabilities voted in the 2000 election, but almost 2 million more did not.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--votingmachines0410apr10,0,3999044.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork

[Bill Bored]

1. This part is interesting:

Under the state plan, marking devices or other systems allowing the disabled to vote would not necessarily be available at every polling place, but would be at some locations within "each town and city in the county, in each (state) Assembly District in the county ... or in polling places intended to serve concentrations of disabled voters."

I'd like to see a source on this one. It could be they are referring to a temporary situation or just the 2006 Primary. It's not clear. That said I have heard some rumors about designating polling places especially for disabled voters, including ramps, wide doors, etc.

It doesn't do any good to have DREs or ballot markers if the disabled voters can't get their wheelchairs through the door! Another HAVA excess we may be trying to eschew.

[Wilms]

2. Of course it's not clear! It's NY!

:D

Did you see this one?

Says...

Survey: Disabled prefer absentee ballots

By Tom Grace

Cooperstown News Bureau

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x422273