Polls Apart Deadline Looms

How accessible was your local polling station?

Disabled people have until this Friday (21 May) to submit information on the accessibility of their local polling stations to the Polls Apart survey being run by national disability charity Scope.

In 2005, Scope found that 68% – more than two thirds – of polling stations had one or more access problems to disabled people, infringing many people’s right to vote. The new survey will reveal if the situation has improved in 2010 – as we’ve been told it has – or remained unchanged or even become worse, as suggested by some campaigners.

Whether you voted (or tried to vote) by post or at a polling station you can fill in the survey in three ways:

Go to www.pollsapart.org.uk and complete the survey online.

Download a survey from www.pollsapart.org.uk and use the freepost address:

Scope – Polls Apart

Freepost LON 8654

London

N7 9BR

Call Scope on 020 7619 7370.

The survey results will be published in June.