KILL THE SENATE ELECTION REFORM BILL

Senators Bond and McConnell want to kill the Senate Election Reform Bill with a filibuster. In order to keep accessible voting machines, money to make polling places accessible, the access board setting accessible standards for voting call and write your Senators. Both your Senators need to hear from you.

The message: Vote for closure. Stop the filibuster.

Senator Bond’s photo identification requirement creates an obstacle course for voters with disabilities and is an attempt to reinstate the poll tax.

Who does not have a photo id with their address on it:
- 3.5 million Americans with disabilities
- Millions of college students who are not living at home
- Millions of seniors and people with disabilities living in nursing homes
- Poor people including African Americans and language minorities

Preventing fraud:
- Election fraud is as much a threat on our nation as was 9/11.
- The best way to prevent voter fraud is to have accurate voter registration lists. This legislation requires that and provides the funding to pay for it.
- Thirty-eight states allow for a voter without a photo i.d. to sign an attestation form so the signature can be compared with the voter registration form.
- The photo id makes it much harder to vote absentee. According to the GAO 70% of polling places are not wheelchair accessible. Under Bond’s requirement, first time voters with disabilities are required to go to their inaccessible polling place to cast their vote.
- In order to vote absentee a citizen must photocopy their photo i.d, or get a photo id and mail it in with their absentee ballot. How easy is it in Anacostia, Watts, or the Barrios of the Rio Grande Valley to find a copy machine?
- Voters with disabilities are twice as likely to vote absentee as the able bodied in large part because getting out is difficult or impossible. This photo i.d. requirement forces a voter with a disability to go to a copy machine and make a copy of their photo i.d. or utility bill which they may or may not have.
- Election fraud needs to be difficult. The right to vote of Americans with disabilities and racial minorities should not be sacrificed in a phony attempt to prevent fraud.

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