Voter Turnout and Voting Accessibility

Fact Sheets on Voter Turnout

• "Fact sheet: Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2022 Elections," by Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, and Mason Ameri, July 2023. 
• "Fact sheet: Disability and Voting Access Policies in 2020," by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, December 2021. 
• "Fact sheet: Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2020 Elections," by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, July 2021. 
• "Fact sheet: Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2018 Elections," by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, July 2019.
• "Fact sheet: Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2016 Elections," by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, July 2017.
• “Fact sheet:  Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2010 Elections,” by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, June 2011.
• “Fact sheet:  Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2008 Elections,” by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, July 2009.

Projecting Eligible Voters with Disabilities

• "Projecting the Number of Eligible Voters with Disabilities in the November 2024 Elections," by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, October 2024.
• “Projecting the Number of Eligible Voters with Disabilities in the November 2020 Elections,” by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, September 2020.
• "Projecting the Number of Eligible Voters with Disabilities in the November 2016 Elections," by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, August 2016.

Presentations

• EAC Panel Discussion on “Disability, the Voting Process, and the Digital Divide,” by Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, and Mason Ameri, July 26, 2022.
• “Disability and Voter Turnout in the 2020 Elections: Presentation at National Disability Rights Network data summit, September 14, 2021,” by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse.
• “Learning The Lessons of 2020: Voting, Accessibility, and Voters with Disabilities,” Respectability.org, by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, April 8, 2021.
• “Disability and Voting Accessibility in the 2020 Elections: Presentation to AAPD/RevUp,” by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, March 18, 2021. 
• “Disability and Voting Accessibility in the 2020 Elections: Roundtable Discussion with Election Assistance Commission Members” February 17, 2021.

Studies

• “Disability and Voting Accessibility in the 2022 Elections: Final Report on Survey Results Submitted to the Election Assistance Commission,”  by Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, Mason Ameri, and Meera Adya, July 2023. 
• "Disability, the Voting Process, and the Digital Divide," report commissioned by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), by Lisa Schur, Douglas Kruse, and Mason Ameri, July 2022.
• “Disability and Voting Accessibility in the 2020 Elections: Final Report on Survey Results Submitted to the Election Assistance Commission,”  by Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse, February 2021. 
• Lisa Schur, Mason Ameri, and Meera Adya. “Disability, Voter Turnout, and Polling Place Accessibility,” Social Science Quarterly Vol. 98, No. 5, November 2017, pp. 1374-1390.
• Lisa Schur, Meera Adya, and Mason Ameri. "Accessible Democracy: Reducing Voting Obstacles for People with Disabilities." Election Law Journal Vol. 14, No. 1, 2015, pp. 60-65.
• Lisa Schur, “Reducing Obstacles to Voting for People with Disabilities: White Paper prepared for Presidential Commission on Election Administration,” June 22, 2013
• "Disability, Voter Turnout, and Voting Difficulties in the 2012 Elections," report to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and Research Alliance for Accessible Voting, by Lisa Schur, Meera Adya, and Douglas Kruse, June 2013.
• Lisa Schur and Meera Adya, “Sidelined or Mainstreamed? Political Participation and Attitudes of People with Disabilities in the United States," Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 94, No. 3, 2013, pp. 811-839.
• “Testimony before Election Assistance Commission,” October 8, 2009. By Lisa Schur. View the webcast.
• “Voting,” in Gary Albrecht, ed., Encyclopedia of Disability (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2005).  By Lisa Schur, Todd Shields, and Kay Schriner.
• “Enabling Democracy: Disability and Voter Turnout,” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 55, No. 1, March 2002, pp. 167-190. By Lisa Schur, Todd Shields, Douglas Kruse, and Kay Schriner.
• “What Determines Voter Turnout?  Lessons from Citizens with Disabilities,” Social Science Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 2, June 2000, pp. 571-587. By Lisa Schur and Douglas Kruse.