Facts about the Disability Vote in Tennessee and the United States

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• There are 54 million Americans with disabilities
• 35 million Americans with disabilities are of voting age
• 17.5 million voting aged Americans with disabilities have a severe disability
• People with disabilities register to vote at a rate that is 16 percentage points lower than the general population.
• There are more than 16 million people with disabilities across the country who are not registered to vote.
• If Americans with disabilities voted at the same rate as the rest of the population there would have been four million more votes cast in the 2000 Presidential election.
• In 2000, 41% of Americans with disabilities voted compared to 51% of all adults.
• 1,059,947 Tennesseans with disabilities are of voting age
• 417,619 Tennesseans with disabilities voted in November, 2000
• Despite the National Voter Registration Act, 75 percent of people with disabilities report they have never been asked to register to vote by a service provider.

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