Accessible Polling Facilities and the ADA


Tuesday, March 17, 2020
2:00 PM Eastern Time Zone

Description

This presentation will cover resources available to election officials to evaluate the accessibility of polling locations, specifically the ADA Checklist for Polling Places developed by the U.S. Dept. of Justice in 2016. The presentation will discuss training polling place staff and volunteers on key issues related to disability voting rights, disability awareness, and avoiding barriers to voting access. The presentation will include real life examples, images and graphics to illustrate the content.

Continuing Education Recognition Available

Certificate Credit hours
ACTCP 1.5
Certificate of Attendance 1.5

Speakers:

Julie Brinkhoff, Co-Director/PI, Great Plains ADA Center

Questions for presenters:

1 Where can we get access to accessible polling equipment?
2 How long will the phone webinar be?

Session Questions

This session is accepting questions from registered users. After you have registered to participate in this session you can submit your questions on your Account Manager page. Please note: the number of questions will be limited and submissions will be closed well before the session starts to provide time to prepare answers.