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Electoral Access in El Salvador:
Disability Groups Forwards Recommendations for Election Reform
June 24-25, 2003

Eileen Giron Batres, Director of Acogipri, voting at her polling station in San Salvador. The polling station was on the ground floor of a school. However, assistance was required because she was not able to independently navigate a four-inch step.
   
A blind voter reading the Braille ballot folder prepared by El Salvador's Tribunal Supremo Electoral, and available for use at every polling station in El Salvador.

 

"Salvadorans with Disabilities to Document Accessibility to Electoral Process"
March 13, 2003
IFES Press Release

 

 

 

 
   
  Jose Pilar Reyes, an Acogipri observer and the President of ALMES, a Salvadoran disability group, used a home movie camera to interview voters with disabilities and election officials.
   
El Salvador's Foreign Minister, the Hon. Maria Eugenia Brizuela de Avila, Esq., observing the elections athe Gymnasia Nacional, and speaking with several Acogipri observers. In the background is Santiago Murray, an official with the Organization of American States.  
   
  An elderly voter being helped into her wheelchair outside the Feria Internacional in San Salvador. The Feria Internacional is a vast fairground that accommodated tens of thousands of voters. The entire site was wheelchair accessible.
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