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Elections: Visual Impairment

Commons · Question 10319 · Tabled 21 Oct 2024 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 29 Oct 2024

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Asked by Paul Davies

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to accelerate the existing work to (a) proactively identify and (b) make available voting solutions for (i) blind and (ii) partially sighted p

Answer

Answered by Rushanara Ali, 29 Oct 2024

The Elections Act 2022 sets out requirements for the Returning Officers who run elections to consider and provide support for electors with all forms of disability, including those with varying degrees of sight loss. The Tactile Voting Device designed to ...