{"id":50,"date":"2016-07-17T17:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T17:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/?p=50"},"modified":"2017-02-06T21:30:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T21:30:32","slug":"voting-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/2016\/07\/17\/voting-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Disability Vote Coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Disability Vote Coalition (WDVC) is a non-partisan effort to increase voting turnout and participation in the electoral process among members of Wisconsin&#8217;s disability community. The WDVC is funded by the Wisconsin Board for People with Developmental Disabilities and Disability Rights Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>What the coalition does:<\/p>\n<p>Encourages organizations to conduct local get-out-the-vote drives and outreach<br \/>\nEducates the disability community about voting rights and access issues<br \/>\nLets elected officials know that people with disabilities are voters and a growing voter bloc<br \/>\nIncreases voter turnout among people with disabilities and their allies.<br \/>\nSponsors local candidate forums to educate people about where candidates stand on disability issues.<br \/>\nWorks with the Government Accountability Board to asure access to the polls.<br \/>\nSince 2008, the Wisconsin Disability Vote Coalition has increased the number of people with disabilities who vote by 15%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wisconsin Disability Vote Coalition (WDVC) is a non-partisan effort to increase voting turnout and participation in the electoral process among members of Wisconsin&#8217;s disability community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wi-bpdd.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}