The state’s new online voter registration is not accessible to people with visual and reading impairments — and that lack of accessibility is in violation of federal law. Advocacy groups had been in touch with the secretary of state’s office in late August, offering to test the accessibility of the system, but that didn’t happen.

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On Tuesday, which was National Voter Registration Day, a coalition of groups that advocate for people with disabilities sent a letter to Secretary of State Debra Bowen saying that the new system doesn’t work for people with various disabilities.

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