Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateKosovo has not yet signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 59.3 states:
In carrying out its mandate the CEC, shall, inter alia: …
(c) establish appropriate procedures and undertake activities to ensure that all persons with disabilities are able to exercise their right to vote and participate fully in electoral processes in Kosovo…
Article 83.6 states:
PSs shall be located in an accessible place to allow voters to form and stand in a queue and should, when possible, have level access so that disabled persons shall have unimpeded entry and exit. PSs shall have adequate lighting and protection from the elementary accidents.
Article 89.5 states:
A voter who is disabled in such a way so as it is not able to mark or cast the ballot and/or illiterate may be assisted to vote by another person chosen by the voter if they so request assistance. Such person shall only assist one voter and shall not be a member of the PSC or an accredited observer.
Article 99.1 states:
The CEC [Central Election Commission] shall establish special needs voting rules for a) homebound voters: eligible voters who cannot leave their home to vote in person at a regular PS [polling station] due to physical, medical, or any other kind of disability;
(b) voters confined to an institution: eligible voters who are hospitalized, elderly people in specially designated homes for the elderly, persons of diminished mental capacity in institutions of health care…
Article 100.1 states:
The MECs shall issue a written notice provided by CEC informing any eligible voter or group of voters whose request for SNV was denied the right to submit a complaint to the Court of First Instance by a date to be specified in the notice.
Article 107.3 states:
When conducting the voter education campaign, CECS shall pay particular attention to target the rural, the disabled and the illiterate voters.
Article 108.2 states:
Informational material produced by the CEC for use on television shall contain means for its simultaneous transmission to hearing impaired persons in the sign language appropriate to the needs of language groups serviced by the broadcaster.
Article 2.2 states:
Voters foreseen in this category are as follows:
(a) Homebound voters: eligible voters who cannot leave their homes to vote in person on a regular PS [polling station] due to physical, health or any other disability;
(b) voters confined in an institution: eligible voters who are hospitalized, elderly people in certain homes for the elderly, persons with diminished mental health care institutions…
Article 3.1 states:
An eligible voter who wishes to register as a homebound voter, shall submit to the relevant MEC [Municipal Election Commission] period between sixty (60) and fifteen (15) days before the elections, the following documents:
(a) a completed application, a copy of which is attached as Appendix I;
(b) copy of the identification document (ID card valid, valid travel document, valid passport);
(c) a copy of the certificate of disability or meical diagnosis in support of his/her application.
Article 4.2 states:
At the house of the homebound voter, PSCMT [Polling Station Committee Mobile Team]: …
(b) Requires from the voter to be identified using an acceptable form of identification…
(d) allows voters to vote to help each person present, but not PSCMT member’s or an accredited observe;
Article 5.1 states:
MEC [Municipal Election Commission] should identify institutions…to make the necessary arrangements for voting and inform the administration of the relevant institutions to plan and schedule for voting team in institution…
Article 5.5 states:
VTI [Voting team in institutions] is working as a mobile team that goes from one to the other voter with the mobile ballot box, or establishes a polling station within the institution…
Article 5.7 states:
To vote in one of the institutions…eligible voters must be registered in the aforementioned institutions no later than the fifteen days (15) before Election Day.