By WALTER BALANE
MindaNews
MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon—Only seven out of at least 200 persons with disability in this city were able to register as voters during the special registration held earlier this month, illustrating the obstacles PWDs face just to be able to exercise their right to suffrage.
Local PWD groups lamented the lack of information dissemination by the Commission on Elections and local officials, as well as the difficulties PWDs face traveling from their residences to the registration area. The rotating brownouts in Mindanao aggravated the problem.
Among the seven who managed to register was 31-year-old Gamaya Macua, a fish vendor from Barangay Aglayan who lost her right leg in a vehicular accident in 2005 and now walks using an artificial leg.
