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...disabilities.
However, important know that most disabilities are "invisible." Less visible are disabilities caused by epilepsy, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, traumatic brain injury, mental retardation, AIDS, some forms of multiple sclerosis, psychiatric disabilities, and cancer.
Voting Registration and People with Disabilities
For number of reasons, people who are disabled vote at a 10-20 percent lower rate that nondisabled voters. In fact, if people with disabilities voted at the same rate as those without disabilities, 4.6 million more votes would have been cast in the last presidential election. (1)
Poor voter turnout by Americans with disabilities is partly a result of low voter registration rates. There are approximately 27 million people with disabilities who did not wrote in the 2000 presidential election; more than 10 million are not even registered to vote. (2) In fact, people with disabilities register to vote at a...
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