>From the web page
http://www.nod.org/vote2000/votefacts.html

National Organization on Disability
Facts About the Disability Vote


  * If people with disabilities voted at the same rate as the
    rest of America, there would have been at least 5 million
    more votes cast in the 1996 Presidential election.

  * 14 million voting age people with disabilities are not
    registered to vote.

  * People with disabilities register to vote at a rate that is
    16 percentage points less than the rest of the population.

  * Disability service providers are required by law to offer
    voter registration to their clients.

  * 75 percent of people with disabilities report they have
    never been asked to register to vote by a service provider.

  * There are over 35 million voting-age persons with
    disabilities.

  * In the 1996 Presidential election, 11.6 million Americans
    with disabilities did vote; 23.5 million Americans with
    disabilities of voting age did not vote.

  * In the 1996 Presidential election, 30% of people with
    disabilities of voting age voted; 50% of the voting age
    population at large voted.

  * Persons with disabilities who are employed vote at the same
    rate as their non-disabled peers.


    (Source: 1998 N.O.D./Louis Harris Survey of Americans with
    Disabilities)

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