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The Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act (VAEHA) P.L. 98-435, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973ee–1973ee-6, is a United States law passed in 1984 that mandates easy access for handicapped and elderly person to voter registration and polling places during Federal elections.
The act requires that all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands allow certain U.S. citizens to register to vote and to vote by absentee ballot in federal elections. [1] The act is Public Law 99-410 and was signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on August 28, 1986. [2]
You also can find a state-by-state breakdown on a number of voting issues — including time-off laws, polling hours, rules about absentee ballots, how to make a plan to vote, etc. — at Vote411.org.
Originally passed into law to combat racial discrimination at polling places, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has recently been used to support advances of disabled suffrage. Section 208 of the Act allows citizens affected by "blindness, disability, or the inability to read or write" to assign an individual to help cast votes within a ballot box ...
Further limits will be placed on absentee voting. Drive-thru voting and 24-hour polling centers will be eliminated in Texas under the new law. Texas Passes One of the Nation's Strictest Voting Laws
Senate Bill 1 prohibits drive-thru and 24-hour voting, offers protections for partisan poll watchers and changes laws related to voting by mail. How Texas’ new voting law is working: A Q&A with ...
August 28, 1986: The Uniformed and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act of 1986 (UOCAVA) requires that U.S. states allow certain groups of citizens to register and vote absentee in elections for federal offices. [223] 1990: The FEC (Federal Election Commission) released a universalized standard for computerized voting.
A voting assistance sign is on the doors of the library is a signal to voters where they can get voting help, which was on display during a news conference at Milwaukee Public Library Washington ...