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according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 22, subsection (2) states:
No person shall interfere with or attempt to interfere with an elector when casting his vote, or otherwise attempt to obtain information as to the candidate for whom any elector is about to vote or has voted, or communicate at any time to any person information obtained during any election as to the candidate for whom any elector is about to vote, or has voted, or as to number on the ballot paper given to any elector: Provided always that this subsection shall not prohibit, limit or qualify any procedure prescribed by regulations made hereunder for recording the vote of any elector who is unable to read or is incapacitated by blindness or other disability from casting his vote himself.
Elections Regulations, section 12, subsection (g) states:
If an elector by reason of illiteracy, or of blindness or other physical disability, is unable to cast his vote, he shall call the presiding officer aside and tell him, no other person being present or within hearing, the name of the candidate or candidates for whom he wishes to vote, and the presiding officer shall record the electors vote by marking the elector's ballot paper in accordance with the elector's wishes and placing the ballot paper so marked in the ballot box.