Publications

Voting rights

PAI Publications - Please feel free to download and copy any of these materials for your personal use. We will appreciate your sending a donation so that PAI can continue its advocacy for people with disabilities - such as making these materials available.

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You Have the Right to Vote on Election Day, June 3, 2008 - Download one-page flyers on how to contact a hotline for California voters with disabilities who have difficulty accessing polling places or casting ballots, or have general questions about the voting process:
Hotline information in English,
Hotline information in Spanish,
Hotline information in Cambodian,
Hotline information in Chinese,
Hotline information in Hmong,
Hotline information in Japanese,
Hotline information in Korean,
Hotline information in Laotian,
Hotline information in Russian,
Hotline information in Thai,
Hotline information in Vietnamese.

Voters with Disabilities (htm) or (pdf), January 2008, 19 pages, English, PAI #5412.01
Cambodian: Voters with Disabilities #5412.06
Chinese: Voters with Disabilities #5412.04
Hmong: Voters with Disabilities #5412.09
Korean: Voters with Disabilities #5412.03
Laotian: Voters with Disabilities #5412.12
Spanish: Voters with Disabilities #5412.02
Tagalog: Voters with Disabilities #5412.08
Vietnamese: Voters with Disabilities #5412.05

Voting Rights Help for People with Disabilities (htm) or (pdf) or Large Print, March 2005, 1 page, English, PAI #5452.01

Voters with Disabilities (htm) or (pdf), October 2004, 2 pages, English, PAI #5436.01

How Can I Vote if I Am Hospitalized? (htm) or (pdf), August 2004, 2 pages, English, PAI #5417.01
Chinese: How Can I Vote if I Am Hospitalized? #5417.04
Korean: How Can I Vote if I Am Hospitalized? #5417.03
Spanish: How Can I Vote if I Am Hospitalized? #5417.02
Vietnamese: How Can I Vote if I Am Hospitalized? #5417.05

Voter Registration for Regional Center Clients (htm) or (pdf), April 2004, 2 pages, English, PAI #5426.01

Regional Center Responsibility to Assist Regional Center Clients with Voter Registration (htm) or (pdf), April 2004, 4 pages, English, PAI #5427.01

Right to Vote When You Are in a Facility or Under a Conservatorship (htm) or (pdf), October 2003, 2 pages, English, PAI #5414.01
Spanish: Right to Vote When You Are in a Facility or Under a Conservatorship #5414.02

Non-PAI publications: If these non-PAI materials are not on line, you may order copies directly from the publisher by title, or from PAI by publication number. Again, we will appreciate your sending a donation so that PAI can continue its advocacy activities for people with disabilities - such as making these materials available.

Know Your Voting Rights - www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_dis.htm - one of several disability-related publications prepared in various languages by California Secretary of State’s office.

American Association of People With Disabilities (AAPD): Making Voting Accessible for Everyone - www.aapd.org/dvpmain/dvppindex.php - accessible voting, HAVA (Help America Vote Act), and other voting issues.

California Assistive Technology Network - www.atnet.org/ - dedicated to expanding the accessibility of tools, resources and technology that will help increase independence, improve personal productivity and enhance the quality of life for all Californians.

California Voter Empowerment Circle (CalVEC) - www.calvec.org

Easy Voter Guide: Voting is Easy As 1-2-3 - www.easyvoter.org/california/resources/htv-eng.pdf

Easy Voter Guide: Political Parties - What They Stand For & Top Priorities - www.easyvoter.org/california/resources/ev-ppstatement-eng.pdf

Easy Voter Guide: The Next Election - www.easyvoter.org/california/nextelection/index.html

Go Voter: Make Voting Accessible for ALL - www.govoter.org/

Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA): California's Voting Rights Act - www.ss.ca.gov/elections/hava.htm

Impact: Political Activism and Voter Participation by Persons with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities - http://ici.umn.edu/products/impact/172/default.html

Launching a Successful Voter Empowerment Campaign - www.ncstac.org/content/materials/vote.pdf

Voting Rights - www.civilrights.org/issues/voting/ - civilrights.org, The Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century

Smart Voter: Nonpartisan Election Information - www.smartvoter.org

United Cerebral Palsy (UCP): Public Policy - Voter Rights - www.ucp.org/ucp_generalsub.cfm/1/8/12056

U. S. Department of Justice: ADA Checklist for Polling Places - www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/votingchecklist.htm

Voting Rights of People with Mental Disabilities: Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - www.bazelon.org/issues/voting/index.htm