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Posters

Colorful and eye-catching, posters are an excellent tool for educating voters about the electoral system. A few of these posters, developed by national election commissions and advocacy organizations, inform voters with disabilities about services available specifically for them. In recent years, some countries have also chosen to prominently depict voters with disabilities on posters aimed at educating the general voting public.

This poster from Bangladesh was developed by IFES' local partner organization, Action on Disability and Development (ADD) for the October 2001 Parliamentary election. The top portion of the poster depicts citizens with various physical disabilities entering an accessible polling station. The bottom portion depicts a blind voter being assisted by a friend. The poster is in the Bengali language.	This poster from Nicaragua was developed in partnership with the Nicaraguan Association for Community Integration (ASNIC) for the November 2001 Presidential election. The text-based poster contains information on the electoral rights of persons with disabilities. The poster is in Spanish.
This poster from El Salvador was developed for the March 2003 Legislative and Municipal Elections. The poster is in Spanish.	This poster from Ghana was developed by the Ghana Election Commission for the 2000 Presidential and Parliamentary Elections. The poster depicts two voters with physical disabilities on their way to a polling station. The poster is in English.
This poster from Indonesia was developed by the Indonesian General Election Commission for the June 1999 Parliamentary Elections. The poster depicts the various steps voters need to take as they go through the voting process. Highlighted prominently in this poster is a voter in a wheelchair. The poster is in the Indonesian language.	This poster from Uganda was developed by the Ugandan Constituent Assembly Commission. The poster was a prominent part of the government's voter education campaign to encourage registration in advance of Constituent Assmebly Elections. Featured prominently at the front of the line is a voter with a physical disability. The poster is in English.
During September 2002 Parliamentary Elections in Macedonia, a disability NGO from the city of Prilep used these innovative and inexpensive stickers to assess and label polling stations as either "accessible" or "not accessible" to people with disabilities. If it found a polling site acceptable, it placed an "accessible" sticker near the entry door. If it found a polling site unacceptable, it placed an "inaccessible" sticker near the entry door. It also took photographs of each site visited. This project was conducted in cooperation with Polio Plus, an NGO in Skopje, under a grant from the Open Society Institute. For additional information, please see Best Practices: Macedonia.	This poster from Peru was developed by the Peruvian Election Commission (ONPE). Using the international symbol for disability, this poster was put up near polling stations to identify areas where only cars carrying voters with disabilites could load and unload passengers. The poster is in Spanish.
Developed by Action on Disability and Development/Cambodia, these posters were used in July 2003 elections to educate all voters that voters with disabilities have the right to choose their own assistant, and the right to go to the front of the voting line.
Voter education poster developed by the Albanian Disability Rights Foundation, for the October 12, 2003 local Elections.