• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Democracy Chronicles

Towards better democracy everywhere.

  • AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
  • WORLD DEMOCRACY
  • POLITICAL ART
  • more
    • election technology
    • money politics
    • political dissidents
    • THIRD PARTY
      • third party central
      • green party
      • justice party
      • libertarian party
    • voting methods
  • DC INFO
    • author central
    • about
    • advertise with DC
    • contact
    • privacy policy
You are here: Home / Archives for Andrew Straw

Andrew Straw articles

andrew straw

Andrew 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.  

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.  Congress voted to compensate people like Straw and his dead mother from the poisoning (S. 3373, Title VIII, Sec. 804).  This new law was passed in the U.S. House by 342-88 and the U.S. Senate by 86-11.  On August 10, 2022, it became Public Law 117-168, 136 Stat. 1802-1804.  

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 at www.andrewstraw.com.  Straw has lived in the Philippines for a7 years, from June 2018 – present, studying disability access in that country, but may one day return to the United States when the disability human rights situation improves.  

Straw 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 not far from where his father was stationed in Vietnam.

Straw is an active court reform advocate. See:

http://bivens.andrewstraw.com 

http://chief.andrewstraw.com 

PROFILE: http://profile.andrewstraw.com

Disability, Democracy and Mixed-Member Proportional Representation

October 27, 2018 by Andrew Straw Leave a Comment

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

October 23, 2018 by Andrew Straw 1 Comment

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

October 18, 2018 by Andrew Straw 1 Comment

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

October 16, 2018 by Andrew Straw 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?

October 15, 2018 by Andrew Straw 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

October 13, 2018 by Andrew Straw 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

October 10, 2018 by Andrew Straw 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

October 6, 2018 by Andrew Straw 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

  • « Go to Previous Page
  • Page 1
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5

Primary Sidebar

democracy chronicles newsletter

democracy around the web

  • Iraqi Kurdish authorities arrest, severely be...
    Source: Committee to Protect Journalists Published on: 15 hours ago
  • Mob attacks Indian journalist covering report...
    Source: Committee to Protect Journalists Published on: 18 hours ago
  • Redistricting for National Partisan Fairness
    Source: Election Law Blog Published on: 18 hours ago
  • “DOJ hits states with broad requests for vote...
    Source: Election Law Blog Published on: 20 hours ago
  • “Republicans renew a bid to remove noncitizen...
    Source: Election Law Blog Published on: 20 hours ago