- Legislative Advocacy Services
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- JACIL provides legislative advocacy
services through an array of services that includes:
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- Providing educational workshops
and individualized trainings covering the various levels and
organization of governments and policy makers and identify how
laws come to be.
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- Supporting “People First
Aktion Club” which is a Kiwanis sponsored group of citizens
with disabilities who give back to their community through civic
involvement and advocating for policies that impact the lives
of people with disabilities
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- Coordinating efforts for citizens
with disabilities to participate in statewide disability rights
conferences and legislative rallies.
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- Conducting activities that emphasize
the significance and impact of disability rights laws to citizens
with disabilities.
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- Voter Advocacy Services
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- JACIL provides voter advocacy
services to people with disabilities through an array of services
that includes:
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- Working with election offcials
in JACIL’s service area to ensure electoral system compliance
with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) & Help America
Vote Act (HAVA) laws.
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- Scheduling and providing educational
training on changes in voting laws and equipment.
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- Helping people with disabilities
overcome any obstacles to voting.
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- Conducting voter awareness campaigns
that encourage people with disabilities to vote on a regular
basis.
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- The Sleeping Giants of Illinois
Politics!
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- Approximately 25% of people
18 years and older living in JACIL’s service area have a
disability----one of the largest minority groups in the United
States.
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- However, based on the 2000 Census,
only about 7% of people with disabilities vote on a regular basis.
- Because people with disabilities
tend to be disenfranchised from the electoral and political processes
of Illinois, people with disabilities have been called ”the
sleeping giants of Illinois politics."
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- Click this link for
contact
- information for our
legislators:
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- Deputy Registrar
Available in
Morgan & Mason Counties
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- JACIL has Deputy Registrars
- available to help people
complete
- the voter registration
or change
- of voting address procedures.
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- They are also available
to
- help answer questions
about
- the voting process.
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- Since the 2004 General
Election, JACIL has participated in a statewide initiative called
the Illinois Disability (I’D) Vote Project which promotes
voters with disabilities participating in elections.
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- Over the past several years,
JACIL staff and volunteers have made over 800 contacts encouraging
people with disabilities to register and vote.
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- Election statistics indicate
the I’D Vote campaign has made an impact, through increased
voter participation, in all four counties within JACIL’
s service area.
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