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Disabled voter secures legal settlement over polling station discrimination

By John Pring on June 22, 2017 Category: Independent Living

A council will have to carry out an audit of disability access at every one of its polling stations, after agreeing to pay compensation to a wheelchair-user who was prevented from voting at elections in 2014. Adam Lotun (pictured) said the […]

#CripTheVoteUK campaign ‘may have awakened disabled voters’

By John Pring on June 7, 2017 Category: Activism and Campaigning

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A new, non-partisan online campaign could have helped bring about an “awakening” among some disabled people that their hard-fought rights are at stake in tomorrow’s general election, according to its founders. #CripTheVoteUK was only launched in late April, but the disabled […]

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