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Andrew Straw articles

andrew strawAndrew 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.

Petitioning by Mail and State Voter Registration Webpages

By Andrew Straw - October 16, 2018 Leave a Comment

State Voter Registration Webpages

States need merely take the inexpensive step of creating an e-signing page that only registered voters can use, with a dashboard showing how many signatures each candidate has at any given time.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Absentee and Mail Voting, American State Elections, Independent Politicians, Internet and Democracy, Third Party, Voter Access, Voter Registration, Voting Technology

Can Democracy Hold the Military Accountable for Poisoning Its Own?

By Andrew Straw - October 15, 2018 Leave a Comment

Hold the Military Accountable

Camp LeJeune is where I was born. It is currently an EPA Superfund site, and one author has described it as a “toxic hell,” the worst water poisoning disaster in U.S. history, worse even than Love Canal or rivers catching fire in the 1970s.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American Corruption, Civil Rights

How Democracy is Thwarted For the Disabled Citizen

By Andrew Straw - October 13, 2018 1 Comment

Democracy is Thwarted For the Disabled Citizen

Frivolous is the word that judges and lawyers use to shut down disability rights, including the right to vote and the right to be a candidate, not to mention the right to walk on a sidewalk without it being full of snow and ice piles.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American State Elections, Disability and Democracy, Supreme Court, Third Party, Voter Access

ADA Accommodations Could Mean Everything to Disabled Candidates

By Andrew Straw - October 10, 2018 Leave a Comment

ADA Accommodations Could Mean Everything to Disabled Candidates

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.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Absentee and Mail Voting, American State Elections, Disability and Democracy, Independent Politicians, Third Party, Voter Access

Ballot Access for Disabled Candidates in Illinois

By Andrew Straw - October 6, 2018 Leave a Comment

Ballot Access for Disabled Candidates

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.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American State Elections, Disability and Democracy, Independent Politicians, Third Party, Voter Access

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