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Coalition of Disability Groups Demand Access to Virginia’s Inaccessible Absentee Voting
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Coalition of Disability Groups Demand Access to Virginia’s Inaccessible Absentee Voting

The Commonwealth’s current absentee voting discriminates against voters who cannot mark a paper ballot due to print disabilities, including blindness. Instead of voting absentee like other Virginia citizens, these voters must reveal their choices to another person and hope that person correctly records their absentee vote or risk COVID-19 infection by travelling to the polls to vote in person.