Georgia increases accessibility to polling stations
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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.
Georgia’s deaf population and those living with other hearing ailments will be able to make an informed choice at ballot boxes in the upcoming, October 8 Parliamentary Elections.
There are 185 days left before Georgian citizens can vote for who they want to run the country. The date for Georgia’s Parliamentary Elections has been set for October 8, 2016.
Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili has promised this year’s Parliamentary Elections in Georgia will be held in the highest, European standards.The pledge was applauded by Georgia’s European Union (EU) partners, who said they had high hopes for fair, transparent and open elections.
Observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will monitor the upcoming 2016 Parliamentary Eections in Georgia in October. This was announced when OSCE top official, Secretary General Lamberto Zannier met Georgia’s Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili in Tbilisi this afternoon.
Georgia will develop and implement a comprehensive policy to abolish the existing social barriers that hinders people with disabilities from their full and effective participation in all spheres of public life.
Georgia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has launched a new service for deaf voters and those having hearing problems, which envisages providing the people with all relevant information related to elections through video calls.