Egypt

Population Statistics

88,487,396

Total Population

13,273,109

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

14 April 2008

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


Law No. 73 Regulating the Exercise of Political Rights (1956, last amended 2013)

Updated: June 2015

Article 29 states:

…Blind and other voters with a disability who cannot record their views on the election or referendum ballot papers without assistance may express their choice verbally in a manner such that only the committee members can hear. The secretary of the polling station committee shall record the voter’s choice on his ballot-paper, and the head of the polling station committee shall sign it and record next to the voter’s name on the voter list that the voter expressed his choice according to this procedure. These voters may also delegate a person to attend voting with them before the polling station committee, to write their electoral or referendum choice on the ballot papers they receive from the head of the committee. This delegation shall be recorded in the minutes.

 

Excerpt from Law No. 73 on Regulating the Exercise of Political Rights (1956, last amended 2013)