Voting is already hard for people with disabilities. Voter ID laws make it even harder.

[KamaAina]

http://www.vox.com/2016/4/1/11346714/voter-id-laws-disabilities

Disabled Americans often endure voting horror stories like voting booths that can't accommodate wheelchairs, or machines that don't work for visually impaired people. But some people with disabilities are simply blocked from polls in the first place, because of a growing number of voter identification laws.

These laws, warns Doug Kruse of Syracuse University, are a looming issue for disabled voters, for a simple reason: They’re generally less likely to have identification, an issue noted by the American Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups along with disability activists.

As of this year, 33 states require voters to present identification at the polls, potentially disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people this election season. The Supreme Court helped enable this with a 2013 decision that struck down key components of the Voting Rights Act, triggering moves in states like Texas to implement voter ID laws.

It’s well-known that such laws disproportionately affect people of color and low-income people. According to the American Bar Association, the one in seven people in the US of voting age who have a disability lag behind at the polls considerably in contrast with their non-disabled counterparts.

[Gothmog]

1. That is s a great article by VOX

[Scuba]

2. Or as Squat Wanker says "it's working "