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Truth or Lie?

10. People with disabilities can vote.

Truth  Lie

Extraordinary! This is the correct answer.

In fact, many people with disabilities have been elected or appointed to political office. President Franklin Roosevelt used a wheelchair because his legs didn't work well after he had polio. Senator Robert Dole did not have the use of one hand after an injury during World War II. Robert Williams, former Commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, uses an electronic communication device to give speeches because he doesn't have good control of the muscles needed to talk.

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