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ENDNOTES
1. The American Voting Experience: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential
Commission on Election Administration (Jan. 2014), available at https://www.supportthevoter.gov/
files/2014/01/Amer-Voting-Exper-final-draft-01-09-14-508.pdf.
2. Washington Institute of the Study of Ethnicity and Race and Election Administration Research
Center, Online Voter Registration (OLVR) Systems in Arizona and Washington: Evaluating Usage,
Public Confidence and Implementation Processes 91-94 (April 2010), available at
http://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_assets/2010/onlinevoterregpdf.pdf.
3. Pew Center on the States, “Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient: Evidence that America’s Voter
Registration System Needs an Upgrade,” (Feb. 2012), available at http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/
research-and-analysis/reports/2012/02/14/inaccurate-costly-and-inefficient-evidence-thatamericas-voter-registration-system-needs-an-upgrade
4. Sarah Burd-Sharps and Patrick Guyer, Social Science Research Council. The Cost of
Modernizing Voter Registration Systems: A Case Study of California and Arizona (Jan. 2014), p. 12. On file
with authors.
5. Matthew W. Brault, “Current Population Reports, Americans With Disabilities: 2010” (United
States Census Bureau, July 2012), available at http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p70-131.pdf.
6. 28 CFR §§ 35.130, 35.160 (a)(1) (“A public entity shall take appropriate steps to ensure that
communications with applicants, participants, members of the public, and companions with
disabilities are as effective as communications with others.”)
7. For a current list, see National Conference of State Legislatures, “Online Voter Registration”
(Aug. 7, 2014), available at http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/electronic-oronline-voter-registration.aspx.
8. One important note: This was a high-level review of the voter registration websites. CforAT did
not review every page and every detail on any site. The goal was not to capture each instance of a
barrier, but to find the most common barriers. Thus, the findings in this report are not a full-scale
audit of any site. We recommend that states work with professional access experts in designing their
websites and have professional audits of their existing websites to correct errors. While correcting
the errors identified in this report would go a long way to increasing a site’s accessibility, states
should not rely on this report as a complete review of their website’s accessibility.
9. Sarah Burd-Sharps and Patrick Guyer, Social Science Research Council. The Cost of
Modernizing Voter Registration Systems: A Case Study of California and Arizona (Jan. 2014). On file with
authors.
10. Matthew W. Brault, “Current Population Reports, Americans With Disabilities: 2010” (United
States Census Bureau, July 2012), available at http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p70-131.pdf
11. http://www.ncddr.org/products/researchexchange/v08n03/8_access.html
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