Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 4 states:
(1) Where any voter satisfies the returning officer that his sight is so impaired or that the voter is so physically handicapped that he is unable to vote without assistance, the returning officer or an assistant returning officer shall assist the voter.
(2) The voter and the returning officer or assistant returning officer shall enter an unoccupied voting cubicle and at the voter’s direction the returning officer or assistant returning officer shall mark, fold, and deposit the voter's ballot paper into a ballot box.
(3) The assistance of an elector shall be observed by the police officer stationed at the polling station.
(4) Should a police officer not be within the polling station or be otherwise engaged the assistance to the elector and the marking of their vote shall be observed by a person nominated by the voter, who cannot be a candidate for election.