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Andrew Straw articles
Andrew Straw is a person with disabilities who practices disability law and engages in disability reform advocacy. See his website here. http://disability.andrewstraw.com/ Straw is 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, twice a veteran of Afghanistan, ran as a Democratic candidate for sheriff of Hamilton County in 2018. 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. Straw v. McDonough, 20-2090 (Fed. Cir. 1/15/2021); Straw v. United States, 16-17573 (11 th Cir. 5/22/2019). 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, 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 3 years, from June 2018 – May 2021, studying disability access in that country, but may return to the United States when circumstances permit. Straw is now a registered voter in Hawaii, which is the closest U.S. state to where he lives in the Philippines.
Petitioning by Mail and 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.
Can Democracy Hold the Military Accountable for Poisoning Its Own?
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.
How 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.
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.
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.