Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 12 states:
A hospital, maternity house, sanitarium or nursing home for handicapped people or the elderly with fifty or more voters may set up its own electorate.
Article 59 states:
Any voter who is unable to write his/her ballot may ask another person to do that for him/her but must cast the ballot by himself/herself; the person who helps in writing the ballot must keep secret the voter’s ballot; if, due to his/her disability, the voter is unable to cast ballot by himself/herself, he/she can ask another person to cast the ballot into the ballot box. In cases where a voter is ill, old or disabled, being unable to go to the polling station, the Election Team shall bring an auxiliary ballot box and the ballot to his/her residence so that he/she can receive the ballot and cast it.