Georgia increases accessibility to polling stations

Georgia’s Government is taking action to make it easier for people with disabilities to get to a polling station and cast their vote in the upcoming Parliamentary Elections set for October 8, 2016.

The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced yesterday out of the country’s 3,634 election precincts, 1,103 were accessible for people with disabilities.

Ensuring an inclusive election environment is significant for the CEC. Each citizen of this country, despite their physical capabilities, should have equal access to exercise their constitutional right [to vote],” said CEC deputy chairperson Giorgi Sharabidze.

Sharabidze met with officials from Georgia’s Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure, Ministry of Education and Science, and Tbilisi City Hall yesterday and discussed how to make additional voting stations more accessible for physically challenged citizens.

As of now 1,103 election precincts are accessible for people with disabilities and we have intensively discuss ways to ensure the arrangement of more election precincts for the 2016 Parliamentary Elections,” Sharabidze said.

The Parliamentary Elections will be held October 8 in Georgia.