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Examining Chilean Election Law and the Rights of Voters with Disabilities
Maria Soledad Cisternas Reyes (in Spanish only)

Project on Disability Politics
University of Arkansas

The Americans with Disabilities Act: Does it Secure the Fundamental Right to Vote?
Kay Schriner and Andrew Batavia. 2002.
Policy Studies Journal
, 29 (4), 663-673.

Creating the Disabled Citizen: How Massachusetts Disenfranchised People Under Guardianship
Kay Schriner and Lisa Ochs. 2001.
Ohio State Law Journal, 62 (1) 481-533.

Making Exceptions to Universal Suffrage: Disability and the Right to Vote
Kay Schriner and Lisa Ochs. 2000.
In C.E. Faupel and P.M. Roman (Eds.), Encyclopedia of criminology and deviant behavior (179-183). London: Taylore and Francis.

 

CAPEL Report

47 Cuadernos de CAPEL: Las Personas con Discapacidades y El Acceso a Los Procesos Electorales en America (in Spanish)
Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights)
2002

 

Victoria, Australia Electoral Commission Report

Improving Access to Electoral Services: a Disability Action Plan
Victorian Electoral Commission
2003

 

World Blind Union
Position Paper

Blind People and Voting Methods
William Rowland
Updated November 2002

 

US Government Accounting Office (GAO) Report

"Voters With Disabilities: Access to Polling Places and Alternative Voting Methods"
Report #GAO-02-107
U.S. General Accounting Office
October 15, 2001

 

Political Access for People with Disabilities
Briefing Paper Series


Electoral Participation by People with Disabilities: Peru Case Study
Vol. 2, Paper 3
July, 2001

An Action Plan For Electoral Participation of People with Disabilites

Sierra Leone Case Study
Volume II, Paper IV
July, 2001

Electoral Participation of Citizens with Disabilities in Bangladesh: May - October 2001
Volume II, Paper 2
June 2001

Establishing a Partnership Between Disability Organizations and the Ghana Electoral Commission; Identifying Next Steps to Promote Electoral Access in Ghana

Vol. II, No. 1
May 2001

Election Observation by People with Disabilities
Ghana Case Study
Volume I, Paper 3
December, 2000

Promoting the Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Civil Registration and Municipal Elections in Kosovo: Kosovo Case Study
Volume I, Paper 2
September 1, 2000

Development of Election Monitoring Methods to Promote Electoral Acess for People with Disabilities: Dominican Republic Case Study

Volume I, Paper 1
July 5, 2000

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