Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Elections
Publisher :
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Older people
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Task Force on Elections
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Older people
ISBN :
Author : Henry Wilhelm
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,75 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Barrier-free design
ISBN : 9781628083262
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 :
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781628083279
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 :
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 1999
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on House Administration. Subcommittee on Elections
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Richard Sobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 11,92 MB
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1316849090
Citizenship as Foundation of Rights explores the nature and meaning of American citizenship and the rights flowing from citizenship in the context of current debates around politics, including immigration. The book explains the sources of citizenship rights in the Constitution and focuses on three key citizenship rights - the right to vote, the right to employment, and the right to travel in the US. It explains why those rights are fundamental and how national identification systems and ID requirements to vote, work and travel undermine the fundamental citizen rights. Richard Sobel analyzes how protecting citizens' rights preserves them for future generations of citizens and aspiring citizens here. No other book offers such a clarification of fundamental citizen rights and explains how ID schemes contradict and undermine the constitutional rights of American citizenship.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 2023
Category : Elections
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Author : Department Justice
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 2014-10-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781500783945
(a) Design and construction. (1) Each facility or part of a facility constructed by, on behalf of, or for the use of a public entity shall be designed and constructed in such manner that the facility or part of the facility is readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, if the construction was commenced after January 26, 1992. (2) Exception for structural impracticability. (i) Full compliance with the requirements of this section is not required where a public entity can demonstrate that it is structurally impracticable to meet the requirements. Full compliance will be considered structurally impracticable only in those rare circumstances when the unique characteristics of terrain prevent the incorporation of accessibility features. (ii) If full compliance with this section would be structurally impracticable, compliance with this section is required to the extent that it is not structurally impracticable. In that case, any portion of the facility that can be made accessible shall be made accessible to the extent that it is not structurally impracticable. (iii) If providing accessibility in conformance with this section to individuals with certain disabilities (e.g., those who use wheelchairs) would be structurally impracticable, accessibility shall nonetheless be ensured to persons with other types of disabilities, (e.g., those who use crutches or who have sight, hearing, or mental impairments) in accordance with this section.
Author : Mark P. Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1440860858
Examines voting trends and political representation in the United States today—with a special focus on debates over voting rights, voter fraud, and voter suppression—and election rules and regulations, including those related to gerrymandering, campaign fundraising, and other controversial subjects. Do average Americans have a voice in Washington? Are they well-represented, or are they marginalized? Do elections reflect fundamental democratic institutions and values, or are they tarnished by voter suppression, voter fraud, gerrymandering, or other factors? To what extent do America's elected officials reflect the diversity of race, religion, gender, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, and political views of the wider American population? This encyclopedia explores all these questions and more. It examines important mechanisms and laws shaping political representation in America in the 21st century, such as term limits, gerrymandering, the Electoral College, and "direct democracy" (ballot initiatives and referendums); and the degree to which various demographic groups are represented in state and federal legislatures, from Latinos and senior citizens to atheists and residents of rural states. It also explains the basis for escalating concerns about both voter fraud and voter suppression.
