Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 11, subsection 2 states:
A list of candidates shall be in Form 2; and the submission shall bear the signature of each person submitting the same together with his name and the serial number of his registration card: Provided that if any such person is unable to sign his name, his mark, made against his name written by some other person, shall be deemed to be his signature for the purposes of this paragraph but not for the purposes of section 12.
Section 27 states:
(3) Every elector who votes at an election shall, subject to the provisions of this Act relating to voting by proxy and to the marking of ballot papers on behalf of blind and incapacitated electors, vote at a polling place in person
Section 30 states:
(1) The following electors shall be entitled to vote by proxy at an election-
(2) Not more than one person shall be appointed to vote as a proxy on behalf of any one elector.
(3) No person shall be appointed to vote as a proxy-
4. An elector voting as a proxy on behalf of another elector so shall do at the same polling place and at the same time as he votes on his own behalf.
Section 54, paragraph (a), subparagraph (iii), part (a) states:
[Regarding voting by nonresident electors] if the non-resident elector is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from personally complying with the fore-going provisions of this paragraph, the ballot attendant may, at the request of the non-resident elector comply or permit a person appointed by the non-resident elector comply with any such provisions on his behalf, in his presence and according to his directions.
Section 73, subsection 1 states:
The presiding officer, on the application of any voter who is incapacitated by blindness or any other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed by section 72 and who takes an oath in Form 21, mark the ballot paper of such elector in his presence and in the manner directed by him.
(2) The presiding officer may at the request of any elector who is incapacitated in the manner prescribed in subsection (1) and who has taken the oath in Form 22 and is accompanied by a friend, permit such friend, if he is an elector entitled to vote at the polling place, immediately after he has voted on his own behalf and notwithstanding that his finger has been immersed in electoral ink, to accompany the elector into the voting compartment and mark his ballot for him: provided that no person may mark the ballot paper of more than one lector as his friend.
Section 73, subsection 3 states:
Whenever any voter has had his ballot paper marked in accordance with this section, the poll clerk shall enter in to the poll book opposite the name of the elector the fact that the ballot paper was so marked by a friend, the name and the number of the official list of electors of that friend.
Section 110, subsection 1 states:
Where the election expenses return or any expenses declaration has not been submitted as required by section 108, or having been submitted contains an error or a false statement, then-