From Disability Policy Consortium:
“Washington, Jan. 30 – RespectAbility has released the first-ever #PwDsVote 2016 Campaign Scorecard for people with disabilities (PwDs).

“Fully one-out-of-five voters have a disability, and 52 percent of likely voters have a loved one with a disability. There are 56 million Americans with disabilities, and we have the ability to determine who wins or loses elections,” RespectAbility President Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi said. “In the early voting states there are 357,730 people with a disability in Iowa, 166,258 PwDs in New Hampshire, 680,038 PwDs in South Carolina and 357,035 PwDs in Nevada. Our community will play a major role in the outcome of this election, and it is vital for us to know where the candidates stand on our issues.”

The scorecard asked all of the presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle to comment on 16 disability questions. Candidates earned points if they had a plan on an issue regardless of the substance of that plan. Former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders tied with a 100 percent score and former Gov. Jeb Bush resoundingly led the Republican field with a 94 percent score. While there are three candidates with extremely high scores, they have dramatically different ideas about how to deal with the issues. It’s extremely important to read to their full answers so that you can understand their important differences. Issues in the detailed scorecard include employment, stigma, education, safety, transportation, housing, healthcare, foreign affairs and other issues. Several of the candidates did not yet take the time to fill out the scorecard, signaling their lack of initial commitment to the issues and causing them to score zero percent. Dr. Ben Carson and Gov. Chris Christie filled out parts of the scorecard. All of the candidates are invited to complete the scorecard in the days ahead in order to improve their scores and connect with voters with disabilities.

RespectAbility will release a New Hampshire scorecard before that pivotal primary. The scorecard is being distributed to more than 50,000 people who care about disability issues, more than ten thousand of whom live in the early primary states and the heads of more than 100 national disability organizations, many of whom will share with their own lists. RespectAbility also is placing online ads sharing the scorecard.”