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Comelec vows PWD-friendly precincts for 2013

Text by XIANNE ARCANGEL Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV
THE Commission on Elections has promised to make voting precincts more accessible to persons with disabilities, even if Congress fails to pass the proposed the Polling Center Accessibility Act in time for the May 2013 midterm elections.

By verafiles

May 1, 2012

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Text by XIANNE ARCANGEL
Photos by MARIO IGNACIO IV

THE Commission on Elections has promised to make voting precincts more accessible to persons with disabilities, even if Congress fails to pass the proposed the Polling Center Accessibility Act in time for the May 2013 midterm elections.

Commissioner Rene Sarmiento said the Comelec will issue resolutions to ensure that accessibility will no longer be a problem for PWD voters in the upcoming polls, as it had been in the past.

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