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Disability sector dealt another blow as voting in malls canceled

May 05, 2016 7:56 PM

By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL WHEN polling places open on May 9, none of them would be in malls, as had been planned and hailed months before the elections. On April 27, poll chief Andres Bautista announced that mall voting, a pilot project of his administration, will no longer push through. “I personally worked on […]

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Zero PWD turnout in mock mall voting

Feb 14, 2016 5:33 PM

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 […]

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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 […]

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Fewer registered PWD voters for 2016 elections

Feb 07, 2016 10:35 PM

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 […]

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Mall voting only a temporary solution

Jan 07, 2016 2:57 PM

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 […]

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Voting precincts with huge PWD population may be moved to malls

Nov 11, 2015 5:39 PM

By JAKE SORIANO Photos by DANIEL ABUNALES IF all goes according to plan, voting next year will be more convenient for persons with disabilities (PWDs). Areas with high concentrations of PWD voters might see the last of cramped public school classrooms, as polling could be transferred to hundreds of air-conditioned malls nationwide. The Commission on […]

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