Author: Henry Wilhelm Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781628083262 Category : Barrier-free design Languages : en Pages : 0
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Voting is fundamental to our democracy and federal law generally requires polling places to be accessible to all eligible voters, including those with disabilities and the elderly. However, during the 2000 federal election, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that only 16 percent of polling places had no potential impediments to voting access for people with disabilities. To address these and other issues, Congress enacted the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which required each polling place to have an accessible voting system by 2006. Congress asked the GAO to reassess voting access on Election Day 2008, and also to study voter accessibility at long-term care facilities. This book examines the progress made from 2000 to 2008 to improve voter accessibility in polling places, including relevancy to long-term care facilities and the steps the Department of Justice has taken to enforce HAVA voting access provisions.
Author: Henry Gilmer Wilhelm Publisher: ISBN: 9781628083279 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 178
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Voting is fundamental to our democracy and federal law generally requires polling places to be accessible to all eligible voters, including those with disabilities and the elderly. However, during the 2000 federal election, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that only 16 percent of polling places had no potential impediments to voting access for people with disabilities. To address these and other issues, Congress enacted the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which required each polling place to have an accessible voting system by 2006. Congress asked the GAO to reassess voting access on Election Day 2008, and also to study voter accessibility at long-term care facilities. This book examines the progress made from 2000 to 2008 to improve voter accessibility in polling places, including relevancy to long-term care facilities and the steps the Department of Justice has taken to enforce HAVA voting access provisions
Author: National Council on Disability Publisher: Government Printing Office ISBN: 9780160945236 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 202
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In general, guardianship involves a state-court determination that an individual lacks the capacity to make decisions with respect to their health, safety, welfare, and/or property. This Beyond Guardianship report explains how guardianship law has evolved, explores the due process and other concerns with guardianships, offers an overview of alternatives to guardianship, and identifies areas for further study. This report covers people with mental illness or disabilities, to include children populations and aging adult populations Legal standards of incapacity are also explored within this report. Discover more products related to this topic: Physically challenged collection and resources about persons that are disabled Aging resources collection Mental Health collection Childhood & Adolescence collection
Author: Lisa Schur Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107244447 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 305
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To what extent are people with disabilities fully included in economic, political and social life? People with disabilities have faced a long history of exclusion, stigma and discrimination, but have made impressive gains in the past several decades. These gains include the passage of major civil rights legislation and the adoption of the 2006 UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This book provides an overview of the progress and continuing disparities faced by people with disabilities around the world, reviewing hundreds of studies and presenting new evidence from analysis of surveys and interviews with disability leaders. It shows the connections among economic, political and social inclusion, and how the experience of disability can vary by gender, race and ethnicity. It uses a multidisciplinary approach, drawing on theoretical models and research in economics, political science, psychology, disability studies, law and sociology.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Elections Publisher: ISBN: Category : Older people Languages : en Pages : 622
Author: Barbara D. Bovbjerg Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437926274 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 49
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Voting is fundamental to the U.S. democratic system and federal law provides broad protections for people with disabilities, including older voters. Many long-term care facility residents, who often have physical or cognitive impairments, vote by absentee or early ballot. Concerns have been raised about the extent to which states and localities are helping the increasing number of facility residents exercise their right to vote, especially those requiring voting assistance, who may be subject to undue influence or unauthorized completion of their ballot by facility staff or relatives. Given these concerns, this report identified the actions taken to facilitate and protect voting for long-term care facility residents at: (1) the state level; and (2) the local level. Charts and tables.
Author: Richard Sobel Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107128293 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 245
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Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explains what it means to have citizen rights and how national identification requirements undermine them.
Author: Henry Wilhelm
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Author: Henry Gilmer Wilhelm
Author: National Council on Disability
Author: Lisa Schur
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Elections
Author: Barbara D. Bovbjerg
Author: Richard Sobel
Author: United States. Federal Election Commission
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