Sabe USA


The National Technical Assistance Center for Voting and Cognitive Access helps protection and advocacy systems, election officials and people with disabilities to make voting accessible for all citizens.

The Center is managed and operated by leaders in the self-advocacy movement. 

EXCITING NEWS FROM PROJECT VOTE
MAY 2013

NEW To GoVoter

  • The Project Vote Toolkit is now available for free download on the Vote Toolkit page.
  • June 13th Webinar on voting day surveys is scheduled.
  • 2012 Election Day Survey report is now available.

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  2012 Election Day Checklist Report

Very little information is known about the voting experiences of voters with disabilities. There are many personal stories about experiences but very little information about the group as a whole. Congress needs this type of information in order to continue to support the Help America Vote Act which has made it easier for people with disabilities to cast a ballot privatly and independently.

During the 2012 election SABE's National Technical Assistance Center for Voting and Cognitive Access with the support of P&As, LEND Programs, and Self Advocacy groups conducted an Election Day Checklist with 164 voters with disabilities. Click here to see the results of this survey.

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FREE Project Vote! Webinar about Election Day Survey Results.

Hosted by SABE's National Technical Assistance Center for Voting and Cognitive Access

Thursday, June 13, 2013

 

10:30am to 12pm Pacific Time

11:30am to 1pm Mountain Time

12:30pm to 2pm Central Time

1:30pm to 3pm Eastern Time


Panel Discusses: SABE and NDRN worked together to create a short Election Day checklist that was used to interview people with disabilities duing the 2012 election.

Join us to learn what the checklist results tell us about the voting experiences of individuals with disabilities.

To watch the show online (no phone needed):

•   Join the webinar at www.sabeusa.org

•   View the webinar directly in your browser at watchitoo.com/show/wzb-638

 

To listen in via conference call:

•   Dial 1-800-444-8652** and press '1' to attend a meeting.
The meeting ID is 7223.
** Local (Kansas City, MO) and cell phones:  816-235-6400

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On April 23rd Nancy Ward, NTAC Staff, testified to the National Council on Disability about voting accessibilty. Click here to read Nancy's testimony. Click here to read the testimony from the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN).

Watch this video of her speaking about the prime 3 voting system that was used at the SABE National Self Advocacy Conference.

                                                                       

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Click here to see past PROJECT VOTE NEWS

 

Watch our public service announcement about voting

 

MY VOTE by Jeff Ridgeway

They say I can’t vote

They say the decision is not mine

They say I don’t understand

I guess they think they’re being kind

I wonder what they would say or think if they only knew

That when they call the President “Our President”,

I want to Call him mine too.

If I never get the chance to Vote -

Pulling the lever, punching the card, or writing the name down.

I stay the same - dumb, misinformed, unchanged, unempowered.

That is what this world expects me to be.

But I want so much more

I want to be the most educated - the most informed - the most totally changed - the most totally empowered person that I can be when I vote.

I can make a difference and then I can say with pride,

“Not Yours,

not theirs,

but My President

because I helped put him there.”