DRDC Publishes Its Latest Report on Voting Access in the District
As DC’s Protection and Advocacy organization, DRDC ensures that all vote centers and ballot drop boxes in the District are accessible. During the 2022 General Election, DRDC surveyed 87 (or 97% of) designated vote centers. 70% of surveyed centers were operationally inaccessible. This means that these centers were not accessible due to issues that poll workers or DC Board of Elections (DC BOE) staff could have fixed. For example, these centers did not have assistive equipment or proper signage for voters with disabilities. 7% of surveyed centers were structurally inaccessible, or inaccessible due to issues that poll workers or DC BOE staff could not have fixed. These were centers that lacked any accessible entrance or path to the voting area because they were blocked by stairs, broken elevators, or single door doorways that were too narrow for a wheelchair to navigate, to name a few examples. In total, 74% of surveyed centers were operationally or structurally inaccessible or both. Read the full report below.
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