Elderly Voters: Some Improvements in Voting Accessibility from 2000 to 2004 Elections, But Gaps in Policy and Implementation Remain
Elderly Voters: Some Improvements in Voting Accessibility from 2000 to 2004 Elections, But Gaps in Policy and Implementation Remain

Author: Barbara D. Bovbjerg

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1437900291

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Federal law requires polling places for federal elections to be accessible to older voters & voters with physical disabilities. Following reports of problems encountered in the close 2000 presidential election with respect to voter registration lists, absentee ballots, ballot counting, & antiquated voting systems, the Help Amer. Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) was enacted. Among HAVA includes requirements for the accessibility of voting systems. This testimony focuses on: (1) a variety of factors that affect the ability of older voters to travel to polling places, cast their votes in the voting room, or avail themselves of alternative voting provisions; & (2) trends & changes regarding the accessibility of polling places & alternative voting methods. Illus.

Elderly Voters
Elderly Voters

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-25

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781983856983

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Elderly Voters: Some Improvements in Voting Accessibility from 2000 to 2004 Elections, but Gaps in Policy and Implementation Remain

Elderly Voters
Elderly Voters

Author: Barbara D. Bovbjerg

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1437926274

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Voting is fundamental to the U.S. democratic system and federal law provides broad protections for people with disabilities, including older voters. Many long-term care facility residents, who often have physical or cognitive impairments, vote by absentee or early ballot. Concerns have been raised about the extent to which states and localities are helping the increasing number of facility residents exercise their right to vote, especially those requiring voting assistance, who may be subject to undue influence or unauthorized completion of their ballot by facility staff or relatives. Given these concerns, this report identified the actions taken to facilitate and protect voting for long-term care facility residents at: (1) the state level; and (2) the local level. Charts and tables.

Older Voters
Older Voters

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Voters with Disabilities
Voters with Disabilities

Author: Barbara D. Bovbjerg

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-03

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 1437924808

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Fed. law requires polling places to be accessible to all eligible voters for fed. elections, incl. voters with disabilities. However, during the 2000 fed. election, only 16% of polling places had no potential impediments to access for people with disabilities. To address these issues, Congress enacted the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), which required each polling place to have an accessible voting system. This report examined: (1) the proportion of polling places during the 2008 federal election with features that might facilitate or impede access for voters with disabilities compared to findings from 2000; (2) actions states are taking to facilitate voting access; and (3) steps the Dept. of Justice has taken to enforce HAVA voting access provisions.

Voters with Disabilities
Voters with Disabilities

Author: Barbara D. Bovjberg

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2010-11

Total Pages: 47

ISBN-13: 1437917895

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Fed. law generally requires polling places to be accessible to all eligible voters, incl. those with disabilities. In response, states and localities have implemented provisions and practices addressing the accessibility of polling places. However, during the 2000 fed. election, only 16% of polling places had no potential impediments to access for people with disabilities. Fed. law required polling places to have at least one voting system accessible for people with disabilities. This report determined: (1) the proportion of polling places that have features that might facilitate or impede access to voting for people with disabilities; and (2) the proportion of polling places that have features that might facilitate or impede private and independent voting for people with disabilities. Illus.

Boomer Bust?
Boomer Bust?

Author: Robert B. Hudson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2008-11-03

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 027599550X

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Seventy-six million Baby Boomers are careening toward retirement in the United States. Demographic shifts toward aging populations are taking place around the Western world, as a variety of factors—biological, technological, medical, and sociocultural—are extending life spans. Meanwhile, birth rates are declining. The scaremongers argue that this generational shift is going to be disastrous: It will result in skyrocketing tax rates, lower retirement and health benefits, higher inflation, increased unemployment and poverty, political instability, and a host of other societal ills. But will it? In Boomer Bust?, Robert Hudson assembles leading authors from fields such as economics, political science, and finance to separate fact from fiction, highlight the terms of debate, and showcase innovative policies that will prevent disaster from occurring. From topics like Social Security to older people rejoining the workforce to the elderly as a political lobby, this two-volume set covers the gamut of economic, political, financial, and business issues related to aging. The Boomer generation will leave one of the largest footprints the world has yet seen. In retirement, as in all else, this generation is blazing a path affecting succeeding generations profoundly. Boomer Bust? charts a path through the thicket of personal and public policy choices facing not just Baby Boomers but all of society.

Generations
Generations

Author: Richard Marback

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0814340814

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Teachers and students of citizenship studies, cultural studies, gerontology, sociology, and political science will enjoy this thought-provoking look at age, aging, and generational differences in relation to the concept and experience of citizenship.

The Right to Vote
The Right to Vote

Author: Alexander Keyssar

Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 0465005020

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A distinguished historian traces the history of American suffrage from an ethnic, gender, religious, and age perspective and documents the expansion and contraction of American democracy through the years, arguing that the primary impetus for promoting voting rights has been war and that the primary factors for delaying such rights have been class tension and conflict. Reprint.

Lowering the Voting Age to 16
Lowering the Voting Age to 16

Author: Jan Eichhorn

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-27

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 3030325415

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This book explores the consequences of lowering the voting age to 16 from a global perspective, bringing together empirical research from countries where at least some 16-year-olds are able to vote. With the aim to show what really happens when younger people can take part in elections, the authors engage with the key debates on earlier enfranchisement and examine the lead-up to and impact of changes to the voting age in countries across the globe. The book provides the most comprehensive synthesis on this topic, including detailed case studies and broad comparative analyses. It summarizes what can be said about youth political participation and attitudes, and highlights where further research is needed. The findings will be of great interest to researchers working in youth political socialization and engagement, as well as to policymakers, youth workers and activists.