Celebrate National Voter Registration Day by attending a workshop to learn about Voters with Disabilities, including:

• An Introduction Federal and State voting laws 
• Who is eligible to register to vote 
• How to register people to vote 
• How to help people prepare to vote 
• The four ways a person with a disability can vote: 
  • In person voting at your polling place 
  • Curbside voting at your polling place 
  • In person absentee voting 
  • Mail in absentee voting 
• Accommodations available for voters with disabilities 
• Barriers a voter with disabilities may come across and how to overcome them 
• How to resolve voting problems

Audience: This free workshop is open to everyone interested and specifically targeted to professionals conducting voting outreach or assisting individuals with disabilities to vote. SC state employees, librarians, non-profit employees, and the public are encouraged to attend.

Instructor: Ms. Maggie Knowles is the Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access (PAVA) Coordinator for Protection & Advocacy for People with Disabilities, Inc. (P&A), a statewide non-profit that works to protect and advance disability rights. She’s worked for P&A since 2013 and also serves as the current chair of the South Carolina DisAbility Voting Coalition, a non-partisan coalition dedicated to increasing the numbers of people with disabilities who vote through voter education and improved access to the voting process. Maggie has a Masters in Anthropology from the University of Kentucky.

This is a FREE workshop however registration is required below to ensure seating availability.