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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