{"id":7220,"date":"2009-06-11T16:03:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2009-06-11T16:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:03:51","slug":"daily-voting-news-for-june-11-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7220","title":{"rendered":"‘Daily Voting News’ for June 11, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Co-Editors: Dave Klein<\/a> and John Washburn<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Does a polling place have an accessible voting system (as required by federal law) just because it contains “accessible” equipment, or do you have to be able to get into the building to use it? <\/p>\n

Nearly seven years ago, the federal government provided billions of dollars for states to use to — among other things — make voting in every polling place accessible to people with disabilities. States rushed to purchase now-discredited electronic voting machines that the vendors claimed allowed people with disabilities to vote privately and independently. States put the machines in every polling place, but what did they do to make the polling places physically accessible? Very little, according to a new report from the GAO. 73% of the nation’s polling places remain physically inaccessible to many voters — an improvement of 11% since 2000….<\/p>\n

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