Zimbabwe: Visually Impaired Potential Voters Drag ZEC to Court Demanding Braille Ballot Papers

17 May 2018

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to print ballot papers in a manner accessible to some visually impaired potential voters so that they can exercise their right to vote by secret ballot during the forthcoming 2018 general election.

Innocent Maja and Justice Mavedzenge of Maja and Associates filed an urgent court application in the High Court, in a case supported by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, on Friday 11 May 2018 seeking an order to oblige ZEC to print some ballot papers in Braille or to print the template ballot or to provide tactile voting devices so that some visually impaired potential voters can exercise their right to vote in secret during the 2018 general elections.

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