Voters with Special needs

Voters with Special Needs

Miami-Dade County has made provisions to ensure everyone, including voters with disabilities, has the ability to cast their vote. Every polling location will be ADA accessible. Every polling location will also have an ADA touchscreen machine offering an audio ballot specifically for voters with vision or reading impairments. For voters with other disabilities, the ADA touchscreen machine also has the capability to offer an audio-assisted touchscreen ballot. For those voters who wish to vote on the new optical equipment, ADA privacy booths will also be available at every polling location.

Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act
The Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 requires polling places to be physically accessible to people with disabilities for federal elections. This law also requires availability of information by telecommunications devices for the deaf (TDDs), which are also known as teletypewriters (TTYs).

• All polling places are are handicap accessible.
• Absentee Voting is available to all voters upon proper request.
• Accessible telecommunication is available at 305-499-8480 (voice/TTY.)