Ghana’s Agona East Directorate of the Electoral Commission (EC) has organized a training workshop for more than 50 people with vision disabilities to assure that Braille ballots will be provided in 129 polling stations in the Constituency on Dec 7.
“It was the EC’s duty to ensure that voters with vision disabilities cast their ballots without any obstacle.” said Mrs Patience Shebrah, Agona East Director of EC.
She belief that executives of Ghana Blind Union in the Agona East would do their best to educate their counterparts on proper voting processes, using the Braille ballots, GNA reports.
Mr Banford Tetteh Ababio, Secretary of the Ghana Blind Union (GBU) in Agona East, and a facilitator expressed joy about the training, saying it will make eligible visually impaired voters cast their ballots for the party of their choice.
He said the practice where they had to use guides to vote sometimes resulted in their decision being subverted as the guides may make wrong choices for them.
Mr Ababio assured that the participants would embark on house to house sensitization to educate members who did not have the opportunity to participate in the training to become abreast of the correct voting procedure.
Mr Kobina Okuntu, President of GBU in Agona East, expressed appreciation to the EC for the members’ training and pledged to vote peacefully on December 7.
