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 “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.)

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

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

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

https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1555641109036007424

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

🧵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

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…

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 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

Thread CW: murder, suicide, ableism.
@nytimes published a story about a man who murdered his wife who had Alzheimer's and then killed himself. The author of the article characterized the piece as a "love story" in a tweet. 1/5 The content of the tweet angered me. I have a personal rule against reading articles like this because they upset me so much, but I decided to read the full article to see if the tweet was just poorly written due to character limits and a desire to go viral. 2/5