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Disability
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Presentation by: Ms.
Edah Maina – CEO, Kenya Society for the Mental Handicapped
(KSMH).
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The section should be revised to recognize different measures
of support in decision making/consent provided by human readers
to persons with intellectual disabilities in the electoral process.
4. Sec 29 (4) says “A persons who contravenes
subsection (2) is guilty of an offence.”
The electoral commission and election observers,
if not sensitized on the initiatives undertaken by human readers
of PWID’s, can apply this section in observing an irregularity
in any electoral process.
This section of the act should be revised accordingly
to accommodate PWIDs right to supported participation in the electoral
process, including supported access to secret ballot system.
Our understanding of voter education.
Voter education is empowering people with skills
that enable them make informed choices on how they should be governed.
The voter education is non-partisan and neutral.
Among persons with intellectual disabilities, voter education
involves:
i. identification, sensitization and education of human readers
on the importance of assisting persons with intellectual disabilities
(PWIDs) participate in the electoral.
ii. Empower the human readers with skills that support PWIDs identify
good leaders and use the electoral process to help address the
problems of stigma, discrimination, poverty, corruption, ethnicity,
tribalism and insecurity.
iii. Help human – readers understand and relate good leadership
with fully inclusive laws and policies.
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