GOP War on Voting Leaves Voters with Disabilities as Collateral Damage

[SassyIrishLass]

LOL. Yeah, 1 in 4 Americans lives with a disability (and is collecting benefits). Those hangnails can really make it hard to work. It's about time those people quit living off the government tit. I doubt even 1 in 10 has a real disability. I'm fine if the real freeloaders don't vote.

Completely serious, I know a woman that draws disability for anxiety.

What a farce. Her anxiety doesn't prevent her from living a normal life

 

[Independent thinker]

Completely serious, I know a woman that draws disability for anxiety.

What a farce. Her anxiety doesn't prevent her from living a normal life

I have been in retail management for decades and have owned my own business for over 20 years now. I can't tell you how many employees I have had over the years who worked for me while trying to claim disability benefits because they were unable to work. Most lost their cases the first time around but then got lawyers and most won later on, collecting thousands of dollars in retroactive benefits all the way back to when they first filed. And of course, since they couldn't work due to their disability, they quit after working just fine for months.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

I have been in retail management for decades and have owned my own business for over 20 years now. I can't tell you how many employees I have had over the years who worked for me while trying to claim disability benefits because they were unable to work. Most lost their cases the first time around but then got lawyers and most won later on, collecting retroactive benefits all the way back to when they first filed. And of course, since they couldn't work due to their disability, they quit after working just fine for months.

We have teenagers and I can't count the number of times a few of their friends go on and on how their anxiety causes them grief.

I've told ours I don't want to hear it from them. Life's hard, get a helmet

 

[justoffal]

Are the dems saying that the non-living and Illegals have disabilities?

Well not being alive is kind of a major disability

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

‘One in four U.S. adults lives with a disability, and for decades, ensuring they could vote was a bipartisan priority.

But in recent months, a wave of court rulings and legislative efforts, largely driven by the GOP, has eroded vital protections that voters with disabilities have long relied on.

A federal appeals court weakened a key protection for voters with disabilities. And several states passed laws that criminalize efforts to assist voters, or imposed new ID requirements, while Georgia even accused the ride-share company Lyft of violating the law by offering voters discounted rides to the polls — all steps that hit voters with disabilities hardest.

Meanwhile, one of the most crucial lifelines for people with disabilities — mail voting — is now in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump and his party.

“Efforts to undermine, restrict or eliminate the accessible voting options for people with disabilities have a chilling effect on all voters,” James Ziegra, senior staff attorney at Disability Rights Center New Hampshire — a state that has been a leader in restricting access for voters with disabilities — told Democracy Docket. “These efforts echo a dark history of voter suppression targeting people with disabilities, likely violate their legal rights, and undermine overall confidence in our elections.”’

GOP War on Voting Leaves Voters with Disabilities as Collateral Damage

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Undermining overall confidence in our elections is the goal of Republicans.

Yeah, it’s not 60 plus voters registered to the same address, or illegals voting in our elections or ballot dumps at 3 am that cause logical concern, right?

Nope, it’s just a political ploy, right?

It’s simple, you wanna vote by mail? Doctor signed statement of disability and he can lose his license if he misuses it.

Funny how shitlibs are gleeful to add burdens of costs of money, time via endless regulations, laws, rules, etc except when it comes to voting, somehow anything that makes it in any way even for a few mins the slightest delay for the most basic safety measures is beyond the pal.