Voter Rights

The right to vote in our country is fundamental to securing all of our other rights as Americans. Yet 4 to 6 million voters who went to the polls in 2000 never had their votes counted due to faulty registration lists, voting machine failures and inaccessible voting places/voting machines. Voters with disabilities often go to the polls only to find that the voting place, the booth and/or the format of the ballot itself is inaccessible to them. The UCP supported "Equal Protection of Voting Rights Act of 2001" (S-565/HR-1170) would remedy these problems by setting minimum voting rights that must be met throughout the nation.

The bill would require that by 2004 every voting machine must be accessible and afford independence and privacy to voters with disabilities and those who are language minorities. It would also enable all those who show up at the polls to vote and have those votes counted accurately.

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