Statistics About Voters with Disabilities

(As of the 2004 election):

• There are 54 million Americans with disabilities.

• 35 million Americans with disabilities are of voting age.

• 17.5 million voting-aged Americans with disabilities have a severe disability.

• People with disabilities register to vote at a rate that is 16 percentage points lower than the general population.

• There are more than 16 million people with disabilities across the country who are not registered to vote.

• If Americans with disabilities voted at the same rate as the rest of the population, there would have been four million more votes cast in the 2000 presidential election.

• In 2000, 41% of Americans with disabilities voted compared to 51% of all adults.

• Despite the National Voter Registration Act, 75 percent of people with disabilities report they have never been asked to register to vote by a service provider.

Source: http://www.sedbtac.org/ada/ada_in_action/ada_in_actionTemplate.php?ref=28&ptitle=286


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