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.
Here we discuss the voting bills we have been tracking – we will do a further update after the reconvened session next week.
As today is “Super Tuesday” and many Virginians are going to vote, this seems like a great day to update the status of state legislation affecting your right to vote.
Updates on bills that dLCV has been tracking during the 2020 General Assembly session related to voting accessibility and voting rights.
There are a few remaining bills that we continue to track— bills that will greatly improve voting rights for people with disabilities.
We are tracking dozens of bills that if passed, will impact voting rights in general and will necessarily increase the access for people with disabilities to the electoral process.
