Rwanda: Visually Impaired to Vote in 2017 Presidential Elections

The National Electoral Commission has announced that visually impaired Rwandans will be able to vote for the first time in this year's presidential elections which will take place on August 4.

Previously, visually impaired people have delegated people to vote for them by revealing their preferred candidate but that will change because the National Electoral Commission agreed to start using braille voting papers.

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