Special polling stations to be arranged for disabled

Special polling stations to be arranged for disabled
(File) Visually impaired persons are accompanied by their helpers as they cast their votes at a polling station of the Myit Kyee Na township, Kachin State, northern Myanmar, 08 November 2015. Photo: EPA

Yangon Region sub-election commission chairperson U Kyi Myint says that special polling stations will be arranged for the disabled for the 2020 General Elections.

Myanmar Federation of Persons with Disabilities (MFPD) said that there are more than 100,000 disabled voters across the country and more than 10,000 in Yangon Region according to the voters lists.

MFPD general secretary U Myat Thu Win said that voter education projects for disabled persons will be carried out in 50 cities across the country.