WHEN dentist Jeana Lacsamana Manalaysay voted in the 2010 elections, her husband and son had to lift her wheelchair up three steps to her voting precinct in Almanza Uno in Las Pinas.
The classroom where she was designated to vote was at the ground floor and actually had a ramp, but the way leading to it was barricaded, she said.
“Pinag-isipan ko noon kung itutuloy ko pa ba o hindi (I really thought about whether or not I should still vote),” said Manalaysay, who became a wheelchair user after she had a car accident in Jeddah in 1994.
“Ayaw ko ng binubuhat hangga’t maari (As much as possible, I don’t like to be carried),” she said, adding that this tends to draw people’s attention.
