Voting Rights and Human Rights: Comments on "Civil Rights and the Administration of Elections"

In his paper for this Symposium,1 and in an earlier article on voting rights for people with disabilities in the United States,2 Professor Michael Waterstone considers a variety of barriers that have prevented disabled individuals from exercising their right to vote on the same terms as other citizens. Waterstone also describes and evaluates a series of reform efforts that have brought us closer to being able to guarantee access to polling places and a secret and independent vote. In the United States, these efforts began with amendments to the Voting Rights Act in 19823 and have culminated with the Help America Vote Act of 2002.4 With these brief comments, I would like to suggest some parallels between the progression of these efforts and the devel...

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