The Election Commission on Friday said that people with physical
disabilities need not wait in the queue for casting their vote in the
May 5 elections to the Legislative Assembly.
Addressing presspersons here, Chief Electoral Officer Anil Kumar Jha
said, “Special arrangements will be made for persons with disabilities
at polling stations.”
Polling booth staff would assist the physically and visually impaired
citizens to cast their vote and arrangements would be made for them to
take wheelchairs inside the polling booths, he said.
In the polling stations where permanent ramps have not been provided,
temporary ramps should be set up. A blind or visually impaired elector
should be permitted to take an assistant to cast the vote, if he wishes.
Electors with speech and hearing impairment should be given special care
as in the case of other differently abled persons. The facility of
Braille signage was being made available on the electronic voting
machines for visually impaired voters to feel the numbers before casting
their vote.
The CEO said about 22,500 postal ballots have been received as on Friday
evening. The Postal Department has been roped in for receiving the
postal ballot.
Source : The Hindu ( 27th April 2013 )
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