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Nov 3 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
We are less than a week away from the elections. @AAPD had prepared a number of resources to mobilize the disability #vote!

We created 51 state disability voting guides - One for each state & DC. #DCStatehoodNow

These guides are also in Spanish. aapd.com/advocacy/votin…
State Disability Voting Guides go over:
- How & When to Register to Vote
- Ways to Learn abt People & Policies You Can Vote For
- Rules 4 Voting In-Person or By Mail
- Info on Accommodations & Your Rights as a Disabled Voter
- What to Do If You Run Into Problems
#CripTheVote
Here are the Spanish state disability voting guides!

aapd.com/advocacy/votin…

#CripTheVote @RevUpCampaign #Disability #DisabilityTwitter
We have also created the REV UP Voting Issues Guide, which breaks down key issues for the disability community, incld healthcare, education, voting rights, COVID-19 & more.

- REV UP Voting Issues Guide: aapd.com/publications/v…

All issues are disability issues. #CripTheVote
Finally, as we are in the home stretch for Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts we prepared a set of Accessibility Tips, & a Disability Voting Outreach Toolkit.

- GOTV Accessibility Tips: aapd.com/wp-content/upl…
- Disability Voting Outreach Toolkit: aapd.com/wp-content/upl… #Midterms

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Nov 3
My friend and fellow disability advocate Angela Wrigglesworth Titcombe shared her voting story today. She said:

"I voted today, but I don't have a cute look-at-my-sticker, proud-to-be-an-American social post. I have this pic instead. This is the new voting machine in Texas.” 1/7 A row of voting machines wi...
“It's a touch screen that requires a person to reach out & hold their arm steady for the 100 screens, yes, 100, necessary to vote. It must be touched in numerous places, then the voter must feed 2 sheets of paper into the machine to print their selections.”
(TX has LONG ballots.) Image
Angela continues, “The former machine could be accessed within an inch of one's body & had multiple selections per page to limit scrolling. And then you hit SUBMIT.” #CripTheVote #Disability #Vote #2022Midterms 3/7 A voting machine with tacti...
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Aug 12
For disabled and other #HighRiskCovid19 people, the CDC’s new guidance means more:
- Death
- Sickness & further disablement
- Isolation from family, friends, services, supports
- For those who cannot isolate but want to protect themselves & others, risk of public harassment 1/5
- For those of us who have to work or go to school in person, this new guidance will make it even harder to get accommodations related to COVID safety.
- For families who have kept their high risk children at home instead of sending them to school, this will have to continue 2/5
- For people living in congregate settings, group homes, nursing homes, jails, detention centers, this new CDC guidance will mean that COVID will continue to tear through these places, and people will have even less recourse to protect themselves. 3/5
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Aug 5
When someone needs assistance voting, the question raised is not “Should they be voting?” but “How do we make this process more accessible?” AND “What kind of assistance do they need and how can we provide it?” #CripTheVote @RevUpCampaign 1/6
There are many ways voters with disabilities in Minnesota can get help when voting. You can bring someone, ask an election judge, use a machine to help you mark your ballot or vote from your car.

If you cannot easily leave your vehicle, you can have a ballot brought to you. 2/6
You can get a family member, friend, neighbor, etc to help you vote. An election judge can also help you vote. The Minnesota Secretary of State website has a whole fact sheet on getting assistance while voting. 3/6 #CripTheVote sos.state.mn.us/media/4703/vot…
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Jul 14
🧵Since the Dobbs Decision was issued and state abortion bans have taken effect, people with disabilities and chronic health conditions have been suddenly denied access to medications they'd used for years to manage their symptoms and treat flares. 1/4 #BansOffOurBodies
The reason for these denials? Medications like methotrexate, commonly used to treat conditions like rheumatoid arthritis & lupus, are abortifacient. In states where abortion is criminalized, so too could supplying these meds to anyone who needs them. #DisabledAndProChoice 2/4
@AAPD and others raised these concerns to @HHSGov & @WhiteHouse, and they were responsive. Today, HHS issued guidance to pharmacists that they may not refuse to fill prescriptions for methotrexate and similar meds. 3/4 #DisabledAndProChoice hhs.gov/sites/default/…
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Oct 29, 2020
There’s been a lot of great coverage about the significance of the disability vote and the barriers and suppression faced by voters with disabilities during this election cycle.

A thread!
1. Jessica Clark, a teen with Down syndrome talking about her voting rights

An As a Voter With Disabilities, I Know Joe Biden Will Protect My Rights | Teen Vogue

teenvogue.com/story/voters-d…
The Supreme Court’s ruling to restrict access to voting last week is a reminder of the importance of disability rights laws for protecting the civil rights of all Americans.

@aneeman for @nytimes nytimes.com/2020/10/28/opi…
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Oct 27, 2020
SCOTUS has me very upset right now, so I’m posting a happy moment from today. A moment so happy I actually shouted when it happened. My ballot was counted today. It took more than two weeks for my ballot to be counted, but IT WAS COUNTED. 1/6
#WomenAreVoting #CripTheVote Track your ballot 2020 Gene...
You may not have known I voted already because there’s no cute selfie of me with an “I Voted” sticker or dropping off my ballot. There’s no photo of that because I could not vote independently in this election. This is also upsetting, and so I’m posting another victory. 2/6 #Vote
When I went to drop my ballot off, the ballot box was completely cut off from me by street construction. The only path to the ballot box was inaccessible and full of stairs. @Loveladyesque had to drop my ballot off for me. 3/6 #WomenAreVoting #CripTheVote #Vote
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