Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 3.14, paragraph 1 states:
The Central Election Commission of BiH shall adopt regulations to determine the manner and procedure to draw up excerpts from the Central Voters Register in case of:
(a) homebound voters due to old age, illness or disability and
(b) voters who are prisoners or are confined to institutions and have the right to vote.
Article 5.19 states:
(1) Upon request of voters who are blind, illiterate or bodily incapacitated, the President of the Polling Station Committee shall approve the procedure wherein another person, selected by the voter concerned, may assist the voter in signing the excerpt from the Central Voters Register, and casting his or her ballot.
(2) The helping person may not be a member of the Polling Station Committee, an accredited observer, or an observer of a political party, coalition, list of independent candidate or independent candidate.
(3) The person helping the voter shall print his or her name and sign the excerpt from the Central Voters Register next to the name of the voter whom he or she assisted.
(4) A person may, in terms of Paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article, help only one voter.
Article 5.21, paragraph 2 states:
The Central Election Commission of BiH shall establish Regulations for voting by citizens of BiH who have the right to vote and are homebound due to old age, illness or disability, or are prisoners or confined to institutions.
Article 5.22, paragraph 1 states:
The Central Election Commission of BiH shall establish Regulations for counting ballots and establishing the voting results for ballots cast by voters who have voted by tendered ballots, absentee ballots, ballots cast by prisoners or voters confined to institutions, and homebound voters unable to come to the Polling Station due to age, illness or disability, and ballots cast by mail.