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Jim Dickson
Jim Dickson is Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD). He leads the AAPD Disability Vote Project, a broad coalition of 36 national disability-related organizations, to close the political participation gap for people with disabilities. He also co-chairs the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Task Force. Prior to joining AAPD, Mr. Dickson directed the National Organization on Disability's extremely successful VOTE! 2000 Campaign. Two million new voters with disabilities exercised their franchise in the 2000 Presidential election. Mr. Dickson was co-founder of Project Vote!, a national, non-partisan voter registration and education organization that has registered over 3½ million African-Americans. He has organized and directed voter registration and get-out-the-vote drives in 23 states.
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