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andrew strawAndrew Straw is a person with disabilities who practiced disability law and engages in disability reform advocacy.  http://disability.andrewstraw.com/  Straw was a Virginia lawyer and 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 grew up in Indiana, where his brother, a retired USAF captain and twice a critical care trauma nurse veteran of Afghanistan, ran as a Democratic candidate for sheriff of Hamilton County in 2018.  Jason Straw is head of Indiana NORML and seeks reforms of the state’s marijuana laws like most other states have.  Andrew Straw was born at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, where his father was training as a U.S. Marine for his Vietnam duty.  Straw was thus poisoned on the first days of his life but was denied compensation and health care.  Straw v. Wilkie, 843 F. App’x 263 (Fed. Cir. 1/15/2021); Straw v. United States, 4 F.4th 1358 (Fed. Cir. 2021).  Straw started a group for people born or poisoned there called Children of Camp LeJeune.

Straw has visited 16 countries and has lived in the United States, Italy, New Zealand, Turkey, and the Philippines.  Straw provided services to the Italian Foreign Ministry as a contractor and passed the written U.S. Foreign Service Officer Test in 1998.  For more information, Straw’s CV can be found here.  Straw has lived in the Philippines for nearly 4 years, from June 2018 – March 2022, studying disability access in that country, but may one day return to the United States when the human rights violation stop.  He is an asylum seeker due to the discrimination and human rights violations of state and federal courts in the USA.  http://cpa.andrewstraw.com   Andrew Straw lives just 1374 km from where his father was stationed in Vietnam. See also: http://mitigation.andrewstraw.com

Court Decision Could Open Access to the Ballot for Disabled Candidates

by Andrew Straw - November 9, 2018

Ballot for Disabled Candidates

It makes no sense at all for states to be registering people to vote online, but then not using that same system to make it easy for voters to sign ballot access petitions. 

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

Docsmit: New Tool Helps Regular People Access the Legal System

by Andrew Straw - November 4, 2018

Docsmit: New Tool Helps Regular People

Sometimes, when a person wishes to file a lawsuit to have their rights enforced, the Court requires paper filings through the U.S. Mail. In 2018, this seems like an archaic method of filing documents, and it is archaic. Enter Docsmit.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Money Politics, Voting Technology

How ADA Reform Legislation Can Expand American Democracy

by Andrew Straw - October 31, 2018

ADA reform legislation

When the ADA and Rehab Act can be used to expand democratic inclusion, that’s the moment when people with disabilities can make that great leap forward into public office, even if they are poor and disabled.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Civil Rights, Disability and Democracy, Third Party, Voter Access

Disability, Democracy and Mixed-Member Proportional Representation

by Andrew Straw - October 27, 2018

New Zealand's Mixed-Member Proportional representation

New Zealand’s Mixed-Member Proportional election system would be good for disabled people in the United States because disability concerns could be heard in Congress more easily.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: American State Elections, Civil Rights, Disability and Democracy, Election Methods, Green Party News, New Zealand, Third Party, Voter Access

On Restoring the Right to Appeal to the Supreme Court

by Andrew Straw - October 23, 2018

Right to Appeal to the Supreme Court

The easiest way to change this system is for Congress and the president to repeal the Judiciary Act of 1925 and give us back the right to appeal to the Supreme Court.  That’s the system given to us by James Madison.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Founding Fathers, Supreme Court

Postal Benefits for Blind Voters Can Improve Democracy For All

by Andrew Straw - October 18, 2018

Postal Benefits for Blind Voters

If you are a candidate and want to make sure that all your blind voters get to the polls early or vote early, you can mail a free no-postage postcard primarily in braille and provide a URL to your website that also is accessible to blind individuals.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Absentee and Mail Voting, Disability and Democracy, Voter Access

Petitioning by Mail and State Voter Registration Webpages

by Andrew Straw - October 16, 2018

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

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

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

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

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