Catskill Center for Independence

Disability Issues In The News:

July 2010

A vote should be easy to cast

July 2, 2010 - Times Union - Brad Williams

June 2010

Senate praised for passing bills for people with disabilities

June 12, 2010 - Cooperstown News Bureau - The Daily Star

Breaking Barriers: Majority Announces Passage of Legislative Package Expanding Opportunities For NY'ers with Disabilities

June 10, 2010 - New York Senate

Disability Bills Passed

June 10, 2010 - Rick Carlin - Times Union Albany

May 2010

MY VIEW: Making it possible for all to vote

May 22, 2010 - Virginia Martin, Democratic Commissioner, Board of Elections, Columbia County - Register-Star

County is ahead of the curve with HAVA work

May 7, 2010 - Francesca Olsen - Register-Star

February 2010

South African designer: Wheelchair helps disabled in body, mind

February 11, 2010 - By Patricia Breakey - Delhi News Bureau

January 2010

Gov. Paterson meets with upstate news organizations

January 26, 2010 - James Goodman - Democrat and Chronical

December 2009

Results are in: Voting machines approved by BOE

December 16, 2009 -Rick Karlin - Times Union

November 2009

Wheelchair Ramp Lightens Load

November 20, 2009 - The Daily Star - Mark Boshnack

October 2009

HAVA's promise is unfulfilled

October 31, 2009 - Charles Reichardt

Override veto of poll access bill

October 5, 2009 - Albany Times Union - Rema McCoy

New voting machines prompt polling-site changes in Delaware

October 2, 2009 - The Daily Star - Patricia Breakey

September 2009

Casting out votes

September 23, 2009 - Albany Times Union - Unknown Author

Disabled Governor "Disses" New Yorkers with Disabilities

September 18, 2009 - Helen Benlisa

Paterson cites cost in 18 vetoes

  September 18, 2009 - Valerie Bauman - Associated Press

Disabled Governor Vetoes Bill that Protects the Rights of People with Disabilities

September 17, 2009

Catskill Center for Independence awarded Federal Grant

Machine transition mostly "easy"

September 16, 2009 - Tom Grace - Cooperstown Bureau

Director of OPT Resigns

September 16, 2009 - Jake Palmateer - The Daily Star

BMDs work so much better for many

September 16, 2009 - Helen Benlisa - The Daily Star

City to revert OPT changes after paratransit complaints

September 1, 2009 - Denise Richardson - The Daily Star

August 2009

Polling Places not ADA Accessible

August 12, 2009 - Francesca Olsen - Register-Star

Pilot Program for new voting machines to begin locally

August 1, 2009 - Tom Grace - The Daily Star

June 2009

With Albany in chaos, Board of Elections staff party in Finger Lakes

June 29, 2009 - Tina Moore - Daily News

Area to try voting on optical scanners in 2009

June 26, 2009 - Tom Grace - The Daily Star

May 2009

County protests voting machine rule

May 28, 2009 - Patricia Breakey - The Daily Star

Covering the Hudson to the Catskills

Assemblymember Cahill Press Release

May 21, 2009

Senate Election Law Commitee

Monday May 11, 2009 Hearing

April 2009

Delaware group singles out concerns in senior services

April 27, 2009 - Patricia Breakey - The Daily Star

March 2009

Transcript of In Chambers Conference

Judge Sharpe, NYS BOE, DOJ - 3/27/09 HAVA Timeline Update

February 2009

Disability Agenda 2009

November 2008

Governor Patterson calls for assessment of voting process in New York State

November 7, 2008

Patterson votes with help from wife

November 4, 2008 - The New York Times - Jeremy Peters

Confustion over new ballot machines for Disabled

November 4, 2008 - The New York Times - Kathryn Carlson & Ann Farmer

October 2008

Rochester News Channel 8

Polling Site Accessibility

October 22, 2008 - Helen Benlisa, Don Wyckoff

Voting Devices take time

October 27, 2008 - The Daily Star - Tom Grace

Discrimination at polling sites illegal

October 6, 2008 - The Daily Star - Helen Benlisa

September 2008

Voters, try out new machines

September 15, 2008 - The Daily Star

Area advocate criticize 'Tropic Thunder'

September 9, 2008 - The Daily Star - Jake Palmateer

Disabled finally have an option when it comes to voting in N.Y.

September 6, 2008 - The Daily Star - Patricia Breakey

August 2008

People with Disabilities Treated like Second Class Citizens...Again

August 29, 2008 - By Helen Benlisa, Project HAVA Coordinator

AG: Baseball camp violated disability access rules

August 27, 2008 - By Jake Palmateer - The Daily Star

Click here: ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO REQUIRES COOPERSTOWN BASEBALL FACILITY TO OVERHAUL PREMISES FOR DISABILITY ACCESS

August 25, 2008 - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo - Albany Press Office

July 2008

New York faces voting challenge

July 19, 2008 - By Cara Mathews - Albany Bureau

May 2008

Time to improve polling place access with a law

May 5, 2008 - By Brad Williams - NYSILC

April 2008

Counties buying new voting machines

April 26, 2008 - By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

March 2008

Letter to the Editor about Health Care Issues

March 19, 2008 - By Rina Riba

Judge Paterson only on his abilities

March 13, 2008 - By Chris Hilderbrant Guest essayist

February 2008

NY board approves voting machine panned by disability advocates

February 27, 2008 - By VALERIE BAUMAN - Associated Press Writer

Board considers poll site removals

February 21, 2006 - By Patricia Breakey, Delhi News Bureau

Wheelchair user tried politeness; now he sues

February 12, 2008 - By Scott Barancik, St. Petersburg Times

January 2008

Otsego must avoid DREs

January 29. 2008 -The Daily Star

State selects voting machines

January 25, 2008 - Cooperstown News Bureau

Federal Judge Rules On Voting Compliance In N.Y

January 16, 2008 - wbctvs.com

A big step for voting in our state

Jaunary 14, 2008 - Opinon Colum - The Daily Star

Can You Count on Voting Machines?

January 6, 2008 - By Clive Johnson - The New York Time Magizine

N.Y's plan: Scan votes

January 5, 2008 - By Tom Grace - Cooperstown News Bureau

NY election board to submit new plan to meet voting requirements

January 4, 2008 - By VALERIE BAUMAN - Associated Press Writer

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