Excerpt: “There are voters with disabilities who use their personal aides or personal attendants to assist them in completing daily tasks, and voting is a daily task,” said Molly Broadway, a voting rights training specialist at Disability Rights Texas, adding that she has already received calls from assistants afraid of incurring criminal charges for activities that are usually part of their duties. “It’s a very present, very real need that exists.”
Read the complete Texans with disabilities fear new restrictions on voting help could mean criminal charges at the polls article on The Texas Tribune’s website.