The Ohio Secretary of State’s office is looking for people with disabilities to participate in a training video designed to educate poll workers about people with disabilities, how to accommodate voters with disabilities at polling locations, proper assistance, proper etiquette, accessibility at polling locations and a variety of other awareness information regarding the disability community. [...]
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GAO Report on Voting Accessibility
The U.S. Government Accountability Office(GAO) issued a report to Congress on voting accessibility. In “Voters With Disabilities: More Polling Places Had No Potential Impediments Than in 2000, but Challenges Remain” (GAO-09-685), the GAO found:
We found that, compared to 2000, the proportion of polling places without potential impediments increased and the most significant reduction in potential [...]
![Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama/Hope” image went viral during the 2008 election. Then controversy about the image’s source transformed it into the poster child for fair use in the public debate over copyright and free culture. Now FULAB takes “Hope” as its icon [Image source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg "shepard_fairey_hope_2008")
![Promotional artwork for "The Grey Album" by Justin Hampton. This was not used for the actual cover, but appeared on the Danger Mouse website in 2004. [Source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/danger_mouse_grey_album_cover_200.jpg "danger_mouse_grey_album_cover_200")
![President George H.W. Bush signs into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990 as Justin Dart looks on. [Source: ucp.org]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ada_signing_072690_ucp_2.jpg "ada_signing_072690_ucp_2")
