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Political empowerment comes from voting and seeking public office.
From this empowerment, people with disabilities will have a greater voice in achieving equity and access in employment, transportation, housing, and health care. From this study, a collection of data on this subject will be established at IFES' F. Clifton White Resource Center, with the aim of exploring various ways to continue using the data. Next, IFES will organize, in partnership with local disability groups, several election observation missions that focus on access as an observation objective. The missions will evaluate the relative quality of access to registration, access to information, access to campaigns and candidacies, access to the ballot, and access to appeals mechanisms. From this experience, IFES intends to disseminate universal standards and techniques for political access monitoring.