Dreptul la vot al persoanelor cu dizabilități

Abstract

The right to vote is a fundamental right of every citizen. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the legal instrument that applies human rights to disability, requires states to guarantee to the persons with disabilities the right to vote, stand for election and be elected, including the possibility of effectively and fully benefit from them, without discrimination and on an equal basis with others, directly or through freely chosen representatives. This means ensuring that voting procedures are adequate, accessible, easy to understand and use, protecting the rights of persons with disabilities to vote by secret vote, guaranteeing the free expression of the will of persons with disabilities as electors, in which case they should allow assistance in voting by a person chosen by them.

Keywords

• right to vote
• persons with disabilities
• the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
• accessibility