The State : Disabled Sue for Poll Access

Claiming that a third of the state’s 24,000 polling places are inaccessible to the handicapped, groups representing disabled people have sued Secretary of State March Fong Eu. Berkeley attorney Sid Wolinsky of the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund filed lawsuits in San Francisco Superior Court and U.S. District Court. Wolinsky said it is too late to rectify the situation in time for the June 7 primary but, by seeking an injunction, possibly next week, the groups hope to bring substantial changes in time for November’s presidential election. Disabled people who cannot get to polling places must either vote by absentee ballot or cast their votes at curb side after a poll monitor brings a ballot out to them.