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Disabled voters push against the revival of paper ballots

Posted on AllSides September 18th, 2019
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While electronic voting equipment offers the most accessibility to the disabled, paper ballots are the preferred method in this moment of heightened worries about election security. Reconciling the disconnect before the 2020 election is becoming a top priority of disability advocates.

"Between security and accessibility, one is not more important than the other," Michelle Bishop, a voting rights expert at the National Disability Rights Network told Stateline. "We have to be able to do both if we really want to make democracy work."

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