“My Voice Counts, Too”: Voting Participation Among Individuals With Intellectual Disability

Agran, Martin; MacLean, William E.; Kitchen, Katherine A.

doi:10.1352/1934-9556-54.4.285

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“…People with physical, intellectual, and psychological disabilities have lower rates of voting. Agran, MacLean, and Kitchen found lower voting rates in communities of people with intellectual disabilities [28]. Matsubayashi and Ueda [33], Mattila and Papageorgiou [34], and Shields, Schriner, and Schriner [37] discovered low voter turnout rates among people with disabilities, with barriers to voting including discrimination and accessibility.…”

Section: Differences In Voter Participation Are Associated With Healtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review

2020

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Background: In democracies, voting is an important action through which citizens engage in the political process. Although elections are only one aspect of political engagement, voting sends a signal of support or dissent for policies that ultimately shape the social determinants of health. Social determinants subsequently influence who votes and who does not. Our objective is to examine the existing research on voting and health and on interventions to increase voter participation through healthcare organizations. Methods: We conducted a scoping review to examine the existing research on voting, health, and interventions to increase voter participation through healthcare organizations. We carried out a search of the indexed, peer-reviewed literature using Ovid MEDLINE (1946-present), PsychINFO (1806-present), Ebsco CINAHL, Embase (1947-present), Web of Science, ProQuest Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. We limited our search to articles published in English. Titles and abstracts were reviewed, followed by a full-text review of eligible articles and data extraction. Articles were required to focus on the connection between voting and health, or report on interventions that occurred within healthcare organizations that aimed to improve voter engagement. Results: Our search identified 2041 citations, of which 40 articles met our inclusion criteria. Selected articles dated from 1991-2018 and were conducted primarily in Europe, the USA, and Canada. We identified four interrelated areas explored in the literature: (1) there is a consistency in the association between voting and health; (2) differences in voter participation are associated with health conditions; (3) gaps in voter participation may be associated with electoral outcomes; and (4) interventions in healthcare organizations can increase voter participation. Conclusion: Voting and health are associated, namely people with worse health tend to be less likely to engage in voting. Differences in voter participation due to social, economic, and health inequities have been shown to have large effects on electoral outcomes. Research gaps were identified in the following areas: long-term effects of voting on health, the effects of other forms of democratic engagement on health, and the broader impact that health providers and organizations can have on voting through interventions in their communities.

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Section: Differences In Voter Participation Are Associated With Healtmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review

2020

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“…Self-Advocacy. In prior research, self-advocacy was an important tool in supporting people with IDD to recognize and exercise their rights, including the right to vote (Agran et al, 2016;Anderson & Bigby, 2015). Participating in self-advocacy events supported decision making, confidence, and the development of a positive social identity (Anderson & Bigby, 2015).…”

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Disenfranchisement and Voting Opportunity Among People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Lineberry¹,

Bogenschutz²

2023

Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research

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Objective: People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) vote at significantly lower rates than people without disabilities and are underrepresented in the democratic process. This paper examines predictors of voting opportunity among people with IDD receiving statefunded disability services in Virginia. Method: We used secondary data from Virginia's 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 National Core Indicators In-Person Survey (NCI-IPS) to conduct bivariate and regression analyses on possible predictors of voting opportunity identified from the literature. Results: Factors related to level of intellectual disability were significantly associated with having voting opportunity, as were several factors related to exercising other rights.Importantly, respondents who had participated in self-advocacy events were more likely to have voting opportunity and people with guardians were less likely to vote or to have had the opportunity. Conclusion: People with legal guardians may be the most likely to be excluded from the democratic process. These findings have important implications for social workers and advocates seeking to increase voter turnout. Particular attention should be paid to include people with more severe disabilities in self-advocacy events and other efforts to increase voting opportunity among people with IDD.

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“…As many of their clients never expressed an interest in voting, they (service providers) "never considered the idea." In a follow-up study involving a different sample of support personnel, Agran, MacLean, and Kitchen (2016) reported that 80% of the respondents indicated that their clients never expressed an interest in voting; 86% indicated that parents, guardians, or advocates never discussed voting at planning meetings; approximately 66% of the clients were not registered to vote; 81% of the support personnel never assisted clients to register to vote; and 79% never provided any voting instruction.…”

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Perspectives on the State of the Art (and Science) of Selected Life-Span Services

Agran

Spooner

Brown

et al. 2018

Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities

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At the 2016 TASH Conference in St. Louis, a research colloquium was held that focused on the state of selected life-span services for people with severe disabilities. Topics addressed by leading experts in the field included inclusion, teaching academic skills, family support, challenging behavior, supported employment, and voting. This article summarizes the information presenters shared at the colloquium. The presenters prepared a short response with a minimum number of citations based on the material they presented, which focused on the description of the practice, extent to which practices are implemented, challenges to implementing the practice, and recommended practices. Although all contributors suggested that much progress has been made, they concurred that there is still much to do in serving people with severe disabilities and their families.

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“My Voice Counts, Too”: Voting Participation Among Individuals With Intellectual Disability

Cited by 27 publications

References 20 publications

Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review

Voting, health and interventions in healthcare settings: a scoping review

Disenfranchisement and Voting Opportunity Among People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Perspectives on the State of the Art (and Science) of Selected Life-Span Services

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