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Many 2016 voting sites lacked full disability access, report says

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Fewer than 1 in 5 polling places were fully accessible to voters with disabiliti­es during the 2016 general election, a government report shows — a finding that prompted federal officials to recommend the Justice Department adopt stricter compliance rules.

The report released Thursday by the non-partisan Government Accountabi­lity Office gives a window of only a year to address problems before the 2018 congressio­nal elections.

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