Disability Voting Rights Week (DVRW) is a nonpartisan movement hosted by the American Association of People with Disabilities and REV UP. DVRW is about advocacy, celebrating community, and building power. This year, Disability Voting Rights Week is September 9-13th, 2024.
The disability community makes up a significant voting bloc. Disabled voters are a part of every community. Yet, systemic barriers prevent many people with disabilities from accessing their right to vote. Throughout DVRW, disabled voters and disability advocates celebrate with voter registration and education events, candidate forums on disability issues, digital organizing, engaging with elected officials, and more.
Disability Rights Florida has joined in these efforts by creating many new disability voting resources and partaking in an unprecedented mailout of voting information and materials to people living in assisted living facilities and nursing homes, along with our partners at disability organizations across the state such as Centers for Independent Living, ARCs, Veteran Service officers, Lighthouses for the Blind, University Disability Resource Centers, and many more. In total, we’ve sent over 120,000 materials out to over 4,000 Florida addresses to increase disabled voters' knowledge of their rights and what voting options are available to them.
Browse our new voting resources below:
- Voting Machine Explainer Videos
- Your Disability Voting Rights Brochure
- Know Your Rights Fact Sheet: Making a Voting Access Complaint
- Know Your Rights Fact Sheet: Supervised Facility Voting
- Visit the voting section of our website
The resources above are online in English, Spanish, and Creole. You can order them from us in those languages along with Braille and Large Print. To obtain additional resources, e-mail Laura-Lee Minutello at LauraM@DisabilityRightsFlorida.org.
View more resources from the American Association of People with Disabilities:
- Learn more about Disability Voting Rights Week.
- Read research about the 2022 elections and disabled voter representation.
- Attend an event: Find an in-person or virtual event near you on AAPD’s DVRW Calendar!
- Prepare to Vote: Check out AAPD’s 2024 State Guides for Disabled Voters to learn how, where, and when to vote in your state. For additional information about what voting options are available to you, visit AccessibleVoting.Net.
- Be Part of the Conversation: Access AAPD’s DVRW toolkit to find shareable social media graphics that can help you spread the word about DVRW and start conversations in your online community.