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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.
Those with disabilities do not need to feel discouraged from voting.. There are laws and resources for voters who want to vote early or on Election Day on Nov. 5. So, how can you vote in Texas if ...
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 ...
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.
[195] [196] Congress also passed the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act in 1984 to mandate accessibility requirements for the elderly and handicapped to voter registration facilities and polling places for federal elections, [197] [198] and passed the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) in 1986 to ...
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
the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974; the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; the National Voter Registration Act of 1993; the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009; the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986; the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984
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 ...