Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 10 states:
Election Officials shall . . .(10) treat with compassion, but in accordance with established procedures, elderly persons, persons with disabilities and pregnant women and provide the assistance that the regulations prescribe . . .
Section 18, subsection 2 states:
The Chief Electoral Officer shall provide voting facilities for voters -…(c) incapacitated and elderly residing in the institutions set out in schedule 1…
Section 25, subsection 3 states:
Where a voter is incapacitated by blindness, or other physical cause…the voter shall, after receiving the ballot paper or the ballot papers, as the case may be, enter the compartment or place designated for the purpose by the Electoral Officer and a person selected by the voter and in the presence of the person selected direct the Electoral Officer how the vote is to be cast and the Electoral Officer shall in the presence of the person selected mark the ballot paper or the ballot papers, of the voter accordingly, fold the ballot paper or ballot papers in such manner as not to reveal the identity of the candidate for whom the vote has been recorded and after leaving the compartment or the place designated for the purpose by the Electoral Officer with the voter and the other person place the ballot paper or ballot papers in the ballot box provided for this purpose and the voter shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have voted.