City blows deadline to make all polling places accessible, deeply frustrating disabled voters 30 years after ADA became law – Chicago Sun-Times

Fewer than 10% of the city’s polling places were marked as accessible for people with disabilities on Election Day — and a third of the city’s 50 wards had no sites considered compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The issue is “out of [the board’s]” control given they largely rely on property owned by the city or state, a spokesman for the Chicago Board of Election said.