Archive - PWD Vote

Getting it Right: Interacting with PWDs is a package of eight video tutorials that introduce viewers to disability issues and provide tips on how to interact with persons with disabilities.  (Go directly to Vimeo to view and share the album.) Produced by VERA Files (verafiles.org) primarily for a Filipino audience, the videos feature PWDs and disability

  By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS FOR the information of Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte who laughed at Persons with Disabilities while regaling his supporters in Aklan last week, there’s a law that prohibits ridicule, vilification, both verbal and non-verbal, against PWDs which can make them lose their self- esteem. Public ridicule is “making fun or

THE disability sector breathed a sigh of relief when news broke in late March that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III had finally signed into law the bill exempting persons with disabilities (PWDs) from the value-added tax (VAT). For advocates, the enactment of Republic Act 10754 had been one nerve-wracking wait. Congress had already passed the

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL AS the five presidential candidates tried to outsmart each other in the first PiliPinas Debates held in Cagayan de Oro last month, one community watching it on television or online simply couldn’t relate: the Filipino Deaf. The Commission on Elections and GMA News Inc., its media partner for the historic debate,

By JAKE SORIANO OF the 54 million Filipinos registered to vote in the upcoming presidential elections, 318,013 have disabilities. The interactive map below shows the 10 provinces in the Philippines with the most number of registered voters with disabilities.

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL A former lawmaker is facing criticism for his insensitive remarks on the alleged special treatment given to persons with disabilities (PWDs) in verifying their votes through the voice prompt feature of vote counting machines (VCMs). Former Biliran representative Glenn Chong questioned the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for allowing people with visual

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL NOT one voter with disability showed up in the only mall precinct used in yesterday’s countrywide mock elections. To disability advocates, the zero PWD turnout defeated the primary purpose of the Commission on Elections’ (Comelec) mall-voting initiative. But the poll body insists mall voting was not intended for people with disabilities

THE Commission on Elections is urging the public to observe the mock elections to be held simultaneously across 40 voting centers nationwide from 7 a.m. to noontime tomorrow, Feb 13. A total of 25,609 registered voters are expected to participate in the simulation in 20 selected cities and municipalities from Aparri to Basilan.  (See Vote-counting

[metaslider id=33666] Text and photos by MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WHAT are the features of an accessible polling place (APP) for voters with disabilities? The Commission on Elections on Saturday set up the Pura V. Kalaw Elementary School in Cubao, Quezon City as a mockup accessible precinct to show how an APP for the 2016 presidential elections

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL and LALA ORDENES DESPITE efforts of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and civil society to get eligible persons with disabilities to register, vote and do it with ease, the number of registered voters with disabilities for the May elections has slipped 14 percent from the 2013 polls. Comelec’s “No Bio, No

By VERLIE Q. RETULIN MALL voting may provide ease and convenience to persons with disabilities (PWDs) and senior citizens, but it is not the proper solution to address accessibility problems, Commission on Elections (Comelec) chair Andres Bautista said on Monday. During the second public hearing on the transfer of certain polling precincts to malls, Bautista