---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20101"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20101"
heading: "Congressional declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20101"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 201 — Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped"
---

# §20101. Congressional declaration of purpose


It is the intention of Congress in enacting this chapter to promote the fundamental right to vote by improving access for [handicapped](/usc/52/20107.md?p=4) and [elderly](/usc/52/20107.md?p=2) individuals to registration facilities and polling places for [Federal elections](/usc/52/20107.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 98–435, § 2, Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1678.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973ee of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 98–435, § 9, Sept. 28, 1984, 98 Stat. 1680, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] shall apply with respect to elections taking place after December 31, 1985.”