- Accessible Voting Places Webcourse
This course provides an overview of many of the laws covering accessible voting, common barriers to voting, and physical requirements for accessible voting places. The training also offers effective solutions that can be used to make polling places accessible on voting day. Election officials and voters alike will benefit from an understanding of this information.
Source: Rocky Mountain ADA Center
Link: rockymountainada.talentlms.com/catalog/info/id:133 - State by State Voting Information – Contact Your State
Source: US Election Assistance Commission
Link: eac.gov/voter_resources/contact_your_state.aspx - Election Management Guidelines
Source: US Election Assistance Commission
Link: eac.gov/election_management_resources/election_management_guidelines.aspx - Quick Start Management Guide – Accessibility (PDF)
Source: US Election Assistance Commission
Link: eac.gov/assets/1/AssetManager/Quick Start-Accessibility.pdf - Election Management Guidelines
Source: US Election Assistance Commission
Link: eac.gov/election_management_resources/election_management_guidelines.asp - Election Management Guidelines Chapter 19: Accessibility (PDF)
Source: US Election Assistance Commission
Link: eac.gov/assets/1/Documents/EMG%20chapt%2019%20august%2026%202010.pdf - Making Polling Places Accessible
Source: US Election Assistance Commission
Link: www.eac.gov/making-registration-accessible-all - Accessible Voting – ADA Now (PDF)
Source: Great Plains ADA Center
Link: www.gpadacenter.org/sites/adaproject.org/files/adanow_accessible_voting.pdf - Accessible Elections for Tennessee Voters (Video)
Source: Tennessee Disability Coalition
Link: www.tndisability.org/article/accessible-elections-tennessee-voters - Helping Tennessee Vote- A poll workers guide to assisting voters with disabilities (PDF)
Source: Disability Rights Tennessee
Link: www.disabilityrightstn.org/documents/helping-tn-vote-drtn-2015-web.pdf - Solutions for Five Common ADA Access Problems at Polling Places
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Link: ada.gov/ada_voting/voting_solutions_ta/polling_place_solutions.htm
Link: ada.gov/votingck.htm - ADA Checklist for Polling Places
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Link: ada.gov/votingchecklist.htm
Link: ada.gov/votingck.htm - About the National Voter Registration Act
Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Link: justice.gov/crt/about/vot/nvra/activ_nvra.php - Voting and Disability Resource List (PDF)
Source: Southeast ADA Center
Link: adasoutheast.org/publications/resourcelists/accessible_voting_resources.pdf - National Disability Rights Network Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access (PAVA)
Source: National Disability Rights Network
Link: ndrn.org/en/issues/voting.html - Election Protection Coalition
The Election Protection Coalition hosts a hotline where voters can call to report problems when voting and receive advice on what to do. The Coalition is a nonpartisan alliance of civil rights and civic organizations committed to protecting the rights of all voters to cast their ballot. The hotline (1-866-OURVOTE or 1-866-687-8683) is an immediate, on-the-spot resource staffed by lawyers, law students and other volunteers trained to resolve voting problems.
Source: Election Protection Coalition
Link: 866ourvote.org
Produced by the Southeast ADA Center, a member of the ADA National Network and a project of the Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University