[vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]In 2000, SABE discovered that people with disabilities were not exercising their right to vote and wanted to give everyone the opportunity to vote. To address this need, the GoVoter project was established.
The National Technical Assistance Center for Voting and Cognitive Access helps protection and advocacy systems, election officials and people with disabilities to make voting accessible for all citizens. The Center is managed and operated by leaders in the self-advocacy movement.
GoVoter Project’s Two Primary Components
To help encourage more people with disabilities to vote, GoVoter established two primary areas of focus:
- Training: GoVoter provides distance training to self-advocacy groups to help them more effectively educate people with disabilities on the voting process and prepare them to vote. The training is provided through the Voter Education Toolkit, which includes a Trainer Manual, PowerPoint slides, handouts, tips for successful training, and supporting videos.
- Surveys: The GoVoter Survey is designed to learn about the experience voters with disabilities have when voting to better understand where issues exist and how to address them. Survey results help educate the public on voting barriers and allow SABE to improve its voter education training.
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GoVoter Survey…
The SABE GoVoter 2020 Voter Experience Survey. Help is needed to collect the survey. The survey will be available NOW! Let us know how it went. If you have any questions contact Juliana Huerena at julianahuerena@sabeusa.org
Thank you for completing the survey for this election. The survey is available NOW by clicking the links below.
SABE GoVoter Survey 2022 English
Let us know how your voting experience has been whether by mail-in or absentee, in-person by Early or on Election Day. The SABE GoVoter Project wants to know if you had any problems or questions about your voting experience from registering to vote, getting information about candidates, the attitude of poll workers, and issues to casting your ballot.
How do we use this information? We take all the completed surveys and report the results to share with Election Officials at the federal, state, and local levels. We also work with Civil Rights groups like self advocacy groups and organizations that help voters with disabilities share what we have learned and make it better for everyone to participate in the voting process.
The survey was completed in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022. Learn more about the 2020 GoVoter Survey findings.
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Voter Education Toolkit
The Voter Education Toolkit can help your self advocacy group teach others about voting rights and the voting process. The Toolkit has many different parts, the most important being the Facilitator or Trainer Manual. Download the Toolkit, learn how to use it, and help teach people with disabilities how to have a successful voting experience.
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HelpMeVote Handout
Parents and support staff ask us how they can help a person with DD vote. This easy to read and use the handout, HelpMeVote, is designed to do that. Please download and share it with anyone you think would find it useful. Download Handout Here
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Distance Training
Between 2002 and 2004 SABE has taught over 20 state self-advocacy groups on how to lead voter education training for people with disabilities in their state in partnership with the P&As. The SABE GoVoter Project continues to educate other states.
States that have completed the Distance Training include Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennslyvania, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.
Will Your State Be Next?
Please call Teresa Moore, SABE GoVoter Project Director at teresamoore@sabeusa.org , if you are interested in the 2023 GoVoter Distance Training or email Juliana at julianahuerena@sabeusa.org[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner el_class=”featuredBox blue”][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]
Additional Resources
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MY VOTE by Jeff Ridgeway
They say I can’t vote
They say the decision is not mine
They say I don’t understand
I guess they think they’re being kind
I wonder what they would say or think if they only knew
That when they call the President “Our President”,
I want to Call him mine too.
If I never get the chance to Vote –
Pulling the lever, punching the card, or writing the name down.
I stay the same – dumb, misinformed, unchanged, unempowered.
That is what this world expects me to be.
But I want so much more
I want to be the most educated – the most informed – the most totally changed – the most totally empowered person that I can be when I vote.
I can make a difference and then I can say with pride,
“Not Yours,
not theirs,
but My President
because I helped put him there.”
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