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Tag: accessible polling place

  • Categories News PHL Vote 2016 PWD Vote Stories

    Comelec unveils mockup accessible precinct

    Feb 08, 2016 2:56 PM

    [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 […]

    2016 elections, accessible polling place, apps, PWDs

  • Categories Arts & Culture Vote 2013

    Special polling place so near, yet so far for PWDs

    Oct 29, 2013 9:34 AM

    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 […]

    2013 Barangay Elections, Accessibility Law, accessible polling place

  • Categories Top Stories Vote 2013

    Senior citizens, PWDs laud special voting in GenSan

    Oct 28, 2013 3:36 PM

    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 […]

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  • Categories Top Stories Vote 2013

    Only 2 dedicated polling places for PWDs

    May 11, 2013 12:12 AM

    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 […]

    accessible polling place, Project EASE

  • Categories News

    Schools will be PWD-accessible on election day

    Feb 22, 2013 8:23 AM

    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.

    accessible polling place, PWD, PWDs

  • Categories Top Stories Vote 2013

    No special treatment for PWDs?

    Jul 06, 2012 2:13 PM

    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.

    accessible polling place, Jeana Lacsamana-Manalaysay, PWD, PWDs, vote 2013

  • Categories Top Stories

    Comelec sets accessible 2013 polls for PWDs

    Jul 05, 2012 11:05 PM

    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.

    accessible polling place, PWD, PWDs, vote 2013

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