[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 MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ LIGAYA Patañaga, 81, was the first voter to experience the relative comfort of voting at the accessible polling place (APP) at SM Manila for the barangay elections. She was all-praises for the voting center, which was very convenient for her compared to the Araullo High School, where she always had to
By BONG S. SARMIENTO, MindaNews GENERAL SANTOS CITY—In less than five minutes after approaching the Board of Election Tellers on Monday for the 2013 Barangay Elections, Gloria Rivera and Bartolome Hoyo separately emerged from the polling center with wide smiles. Unlike majority of the voters who suffered the scorching heat of the sun and long
By MELISSA LUZ LOPEZ OF the 36,778 polling centers in the country, only two—both in Dasmariñas City in Cavite—will have designated polling places for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Monday’s elections. And only 17 voting centers will have two sign language interpreters each to assist PWD voters registered there. Salawag Elementary School and Area E
By MIKHA FLORES WHEN persons with disabilities (PWD) go out and vote on May 13, they can move around with more ease from drop off points to classrooms where they will cast their vote.
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.
By MIKHAIL FRANZ E. FLORES ON May 13 next year, persons with disabilities (PWDs) will no longer have to worry about climbing a flight of stairs in order to cast their votes in the midterm elections.