- JACIL provides voter advocacy
services to people with disabilities through an array of services
that includes ensuring electoral system compliance with the
federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA); scheduling and providing
educational training on recent changes in voting laws and equipment,
people with disabilities right to vote and voting aids available;
and helping people with disabilities overcome any obstacles to
voting. JACIL has a Deputy Registrar in Morgan County
and one in Mason County that are available to help
people complete the voter registration or change of voting address
process.
For the past four years, JACIL has participated in a statewide
initiative, named the Illinois Disability (I’D) Vote
Project that promotes voters with disabilities participating
in General Elections. Over the past four years, JACIL staff
and volunteers have made over 500 contacts encouraging people
with disabilities to register to and vote. Preliminary statistics
show that this campaign has made an impact, through increased
voter participation, in all four counties within JACIL’
s service area.
Approximately 25% of the people, 18 years and older, living
in JACIL’s service have a disability----one of the largest
minority groups in the area and in the Untied States. However,
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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