There are so many ways in which a state can make it easy to sign and help someone get on the ballot. For instance, states could let disabled candidates collect their signatures with the absentee ballots.
Andrew Straw articles
Andrew Straw is a Virginia lawyer who writes for Democracy Chronicles from the Philippines. Straw grew up in Indiana, where his brother, twice a veteran of Afghanistan, ran for sheriff of Hamilton County in 2018. He was born at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, where his father was training as a U.S. Marine for his Vietnam duty.
Straw has served as corporate counsel for billionaire Alan M. Voorhees, who designed the Interstate Highway System and the Metro in Washington DC. Straw then worked for the Chief Justice of Indiana and was the assistant dean in charge of the International Programs at Indiana University-Maurer School of Law.
He started a group called Children of Camp LeJeune for people born or poisoned there. Straw also founded Disability Party and it has thousands of followers in over 40 countries.
Straw has visited 16 countries and has lived in the United States, Italy, New Zealand, and the Philippines. He has provided services to the Italian Foreign Ministry as a contractor and passed the written U.S. Foreign Service Officer Test. For more information, Straw’s CV can be found here.
Ballot Access for Disabled Candidates in Illinois
I am a new writer for DC and I am disabled. The only thing that makes me feel better after a lifetime of suffering from disabilities is to push hard for disability rights. I started a political party for people with disabilities, Disability Party.