States interfere with the right of persons with disabilities to vote.
At the time of the enactment of the ADA, virtually every state had specific constitutional provisions, statutes, or case law that prohibited individuals with cognitive or emotional impairments from voting. In the past . . . The clerk then arbitrarily invented a reason to reject the registration. A blind woman, a new resident of Alabama, went to vote and was refused instructions on the operation of the voting machine. To read this list, click here.