The American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) is the largest cross-disability membership organization in the United States, advocating for disability rights and creating connections among people with disabilities. Through critical programs like DVP, AAPD organizes the disability community to be a powerful force for change – politically, socially, and economically.

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DVP, which is one of AAPD's most significant nationally-recognized programs, works in a nonpartisan manner to eliminate the barriers to voting and, in close collaboration with coalition partners in states around the country, to increase political participation for individuals with disabilities. DVP works to get people with disabilities registered to vote; strives to educate them on how to get to their polling places and what their rights are at the polling places; and works to make polling places accessible to voters with all disabilities.

Among its accomplishments and through coalition organizing efforts, DVP has established networks of national, state-wide and local disability service organizations. DVP’s nonpartisan statewide coalitions reach more than a million people with disabilities through hundreds of disability service providers. Election officials across the nation rely on APPD, as they work to make voting more accessible.

Thank you for visiting the Disability Vote Project pages. This website is dedicated to providing full political and vote empowerment to every American with a disability. If you have found information valuable on making your polling place accessible, how to register to vote, and/or how to increase political participation among voters with disabilities, AAPD would find your donation meaningful to help continue the DVP effort.

AAPD's DVP website was made possible in part by a grant
from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.