Electoral Insight – Persons with Disabilities and Elections

April 2004

• Chief Electoral Officer's Message
  Jean-Pierre Kingsley
  
  
• Persons with Disabilities and Canada's Electoral Systems: Gradually Advancing the Democratic Right to Vote
  Michael J. Prince
  
  Improving access to the vote at the federal, provincial and territorial levels
  
  
• Access to Electoral Success: Challenges and Opportunities for Candidates with Disabilities in Canada
  Deborah Stienstra and April D'Aubin
  
  Confronting the barriers to candidates' full participation in elections
  
  
• The Evolution of Federal Voting Rights for Canadians with Disabilities
  Miriam Lapp and Diane R. Davidson
  
  Three decades of legal and administrative changes to ensure a more accessible federal electoral process
  
  
• The Evolution of Access to Voting for People with Disabilities in Quebec
  Michel Leclerc
  
  Quebec's steps to provide greater access to voting and information about the electoral process
  
  
• McConnell v. FEC: A New World of Campaign Finance in the United States?
  Thomas E. Mann and Anthony Corrado
  
  Overview and implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
  
  
• National Forum on Youth Voting
  
  Ways of improving young Canadians' participation in federal elections
  
  
• Canaries, Mine Shafts and the Decline of Voting Among Canadian Youth
  Dr. Roger Gibbins
  
  Youth disengagement may be symptomatic of a more general political apathy
  
  
• Roundtable on Aboriginal Youth and the Federal Electoral Process
  
  Barriers to the electoral participation of Aboriginal youth and ways of improving access
  
  
• Electoral News in Brief