Get Your Vote Out! You Can make a Difference
Voting Rights Seminar and Accessible Voting Machine Demonstration
Free food, friends, and info about your voting rights, what more
could you ask for?
In a partnership with the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities
(CTD), Advocacy, Inc., the Heart of Central Texas Independent Living
Center, the Waco Mayor’s Committee on People with Disabilities and
the McLennan County Elections Office are hosting a voting rights
seminar. The fun, informative and interactive presentation gives you
the opportunity to learn your rights as an active voter, by focusing
on how the Help Americans Vote Act (HAVA) affects you.
The event will be held at Executive Plaza, 6801 Sanger Ave., Room 230
on September 9th (2008) from 4:30 – 6:00 PM. Interpreters will be
provided.
HAVA benefits voters with disabilities. American poll workers receive
accessibility training to ensure your right to vote privately and
independently. Furthermore, voting machines are now accessible to
people with disabilities.
The seminar will give you a chance try out the new voting machines
and gain access to voter registration materials, as well as resources
in your community. CTD will also provide information about voting by
mail, curbside voting and important voter deadlines, such as the
October 6, 2008 deadline to register.
If you can’t make the seminar, need more information about your
voting rights, or want to report a violation, contact Advocacy,
Inc’s voter hotline at 1-888-796-VOTE (8683). Know your rights at
the polling place… Your vote makes a difference!
In 2002, President Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), one
of the most sweeping election reforms in the last 40 years, into law.
HAVA has improved the administration of elections throughout the U.S.
while creating new mandates for accessible voting machines, polling
place accessibility and training of poll workers. Since 2003, the
Coalition of Texans with Disabilities (CTD), as a member of the
state’s HAVA Committee, has been working closely with the Texas
Secretary of State to develop and maintain the state’s response to
HAVA mandates.
To effectively implement and educate Texans on HAVA, the Office of
the Secretary of State and CTD, continue the VOTEXAS program and are
working with Texas’ 254 counties as well as various civic
organizations across the state to ensure that the VOTEXAS message is
heard in every region of Texas.
CTD and the Waco Mayor’s Committee and the McLennan with
disabilities are reaching out to and educating McLennan County voters
on how HAVA will affect them.
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