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SABE PROJECT

This training aims to educate on voting issues, registration, and participation, fostering connections across various agencies and individuals to enhance voting rates. Explore how voting impacts individuals’ lives, and learn about different positions and items to vote on. Understand the process of registering to vote, eligibility criteria, and various places where registration is possible. Delve into voting rights, responsibilities, and the Help America Vote Act. Emphasize the importance of being an informed voter, helping others, and exercising voting rights responsibly.

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SABE PROJECT

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  1. SABEPROJECT Presented by: Blurry Screen Slide 1

  2. Purpose of the Training To Learn About • Voting issues • How to register to vote • How to go to the polls and vote • Where you can vote • What might get in your way when you go to vote. • How to build connections across local and state agencies, self-advocates, family members, elected officials and legislators to increase voting participation of people with disabilities. Slide 2

  3. Get to Know Each Other Instructions: Use these questions to interview your partner and get to know them. Ask your partner: • What is your name? • Where are you from? • What is the reason you came to this training? • What would you be doing if you were not working today? Slide 3

  4. How Voting FitsInto Your Life Slide 4

  5. How has voting made a difference in the lives of people with disabilities? Slide 5

  6. Things to Vote On • County Commissioner • City Council Members • Taxes, Bonds • School Board Members • Measures, Propositions, Issues • President • Senator • Representative • Governor • Mayor Slide 6

  7. Vote For Your Favorite Candy • Chocolate • Lollipop • Hard Candy Slide 7

  8. Registering to Vote Slide 8

  9. Who Can Registerto Vote in the USA? Basic federal rules to be able to register to vote: • You must be 18 years old • You must be a resident in your community and live our state for at least ____ days before the election • You must be a citizen of the United States • You do not have to read, write, or be able to use the voting machines Slide 9

  10. Who Can Register ? • To register to vote in our state: • What does our state say about being in jail? • What does our state say aboutbeing declared “incompetent to vote”? • What do our state ID rules say? • Our state says you must be registered to vote #days before the election to vote. Put Your State Map Here Slide 10

  11. Places People CanRegister to Vote • Post office • Town halls • Grocery stores • Libraries • Department of Human Resources • Department of Public Health • Medicaid Agency • Department of Rehab Services–Voc Rehab Slide 11

  12. Places People Can Register to Vote • Some four-year Universities • Some Colleges • Where you get your id • On-line on the web • Go to govoter.org, click on state contacts, then click on your state for your Secretary of State’s information about voting Slide 12

  13. Places People Can Register to Vote • Election Board • Disability provider agencies examples: Arc and Centers for Independent Living • League of Woman Voters • Are there any other ways that people can register to vote? Slide 13

  14. Support OTHERS to Register • When you help people register to vote it is called a Voter Registration Drive • To host a voter registration drive our state does/does notask you to take a class? • You need to turn in registration forms by add date here • Add any other information about Your State registration here Slide 14

  15. Rights and Responsibilities Rights Responsibilities Slide 15

  16. Voting RightsThe Help America Vote Act (HAVA) is a federal law that makes voting accessible and says states must: • Make sure that everyone can vote privately and independently • Set up a statewide system to give people provisional ballots if there is a question about whether they can vote • Create statewide computerized voter lists • Makes sure polling places have access Slide 16

  17. Voting Rights • You can bring someone you trust to help you vote: poll workers can not deny you this support person • There are some people who can not help you vote: your boss union officer from your job candidate who is on the ballot Slide 17

  18. Voting Rights You can ask for help from election officials from two different parties. • Poll workers can help you with the voting process. Poll workers can not tell you who to vote for or explain the issues in simpler terms. Slide 18

  19. Voting Rights You can get a new ballot if you make a mistake • Everyone makes mistakes sometimes and it is your right to be given a new ballot if you make a mistake on your first one. You can get up to two replacement ballot. Slide 19

  20. Voting Rights You can ask for a provisional ballot if you are told that you can’t vote for some reason. • But states may not count these ballots, so it is best to ask them to show proof of why you cannot vote before asking for a provisional ballot. Slide 20

  21. Voting Rights You do not need to have a disability to use these machines. • The Help America Vote Act (HAVA) says that every polling place must have an accessible voting booth to help people vote privately and independently. Slide 21

  22. Voting Responsibilities • Make sure you are registered to vote • Know the issues and candidates • Ask questions if you need some help Slide 22

  23. Voting Responsibilities • Be a role model as an informed voter. Get out and vote! • Help someone else to learn how to vote • Celebrate your choice and your voice Slide 23

  24. Voting Responsibilities • Get involved, in other ways, with voting and elections. • Call your Election Board to find out where you can register to vote and vote on election day. Slide 24

  25. Voting Responsibilities • Ask a poll worker for voting information in Braille, in large print, on tape, or in other accessible formats. • The League of Woman Voters is available to support you in getting information on candidates and issues. In some states they make an “easy to read” voters guide. Slide 25

  26. My VoteJeff 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 are 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. Slide 26

  27. If I never get the chance to vote, pulling the lever, punching the card or writing his name down. I stay the same, dumb, misinformed, unchanged, un-empowered. 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 put him there.” Slide 27

  28. Ways to Learn About Candidates and Issues Slide 28

  29. Ways to Learn About Candidates and Issues • Have a Legislative Day • Call for an appointment with your legislator • Look up candidates voting records • Read your local newspaper. Cut out articles, save and read them later Slide 29

  30. Ways to Learn About Candidates and Issues • Read your Voter’s Manual • Listen to the voter’s manual if your state has it available on CD • Talk with family and friends • Listen to the radio and T.V. and talk shows Slide 30

  31. Ways to Learn About Candidates and Issues • Tell stories and share your voting experiences with others • Make a checklist of what is important to you and check if the candidates share your idea • Someone who supports you • It should be someone you trust Slide 31

  32. Ways to Learn About Candidates and Issues • Educates and works with parents, self-advocates and staff • Invite someone from the League of Woman Voters • Invite an elected officials to speak with your group • What are some of the other ways youcan learn about the candidates and issues? Slide 32

  33. Role Play: Meeting Candidates- Who would you vote for?- Why did you vote for them?- What would change your mind? Slide 33

  34. How Do You Vote? Slide 34

  35. How Do You Vote? • Mail in my ballot • With a touch-screen voting machine at a polling place • With a paper ballot at a polling place • Mail in an absentee ballot • Early voting at the polling place • What are other ways that people can vote? “I’m talking to you” Slide 35

  36. Voting Machines • List types of voting machines • Add address for your secretary of state website • Add where people can find info about your state voting machines Add picture or video here about your state voting machine. Or a map of which counties use different voting machines. Slide 36

  37. Possible Polling Places library Slide 37

  38. Possible Polling Places House of worship Slide 38

  39. Possible Polling Places Police Department Slide 39

  40. Possible Polling Places school Slide 40

  41. Possible Polling Places • House of worship • School • Library • Courthouse • City Hall • Private home • Restaurant • Police or fire station • Recreational or community center • What are other possible polling places? Slide 41

  42. Getting AroundVoting Problems Slide 42

  43. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem: You are in the voting booth and you don’t know what to do. Strategy: Bring support with you, ask a poll worker to help, or ask for an audio tape or something else to make it accessible. Slide 43

  44. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem: No or limited accessible parking at the polling place Strategy: Ask if other street parking is available. If no other street parking is available then ask the poll worker to come to your car so that you can vote. Slide 44

  45. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem: Inaccessible route from the parking lot to the polling place door. Strategy: Ask about other ways to get in into the building. Slide 45

  46. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem: Poll worker can not read your writing. Strategy: Make a markor bring a signature stamp to the polls when you go to vote • You may need to fill out a form that says how you will be signing your ballot Slide 46

  47. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem: The entrance to the polling is place not accessible or safe for voters who use wheelchairs or walkers. Strategy: Ask about other entrances into the building and call your states Protection and Advocacy organization (P&A) if there is not an accessible entrance. Slide 47

  48. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem: There is not an accessible voting booth at the poll. Strategy:Tell them how they could support you to be able to vote. HAVA says that every polling place should have an accessible voting booth. Check ahead with your Board of Elections to find out if your polling place has an accessible voting booths. Slide 48

  49. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem:The way your state votesdoes not give you privacy Strategy: Ask the poll worker if they could help you to vote Remember:HAVAgives you the right to vote privately Slide 49

  50. How to Get AroundVoting Problems Problem: You know you can ask for an absentee ballot before election day, fill it out and send it in but you really don’t want to. Strategy:Remember it is important to show your community that people with disabilities do vote. So work with your community organizations to increase in person voting. Slide 50

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