disabilities as voters, and recognize that the persons with disabilities to obtain assistance in voting, if necessary. In order to actually guarantee the fundamental rights of the persons with disabilities, not only the ‘different treatment’ for essentially the ‘same things,’ but also ‘same treatment’ for essentially ‘different things’ must be prohibited. Not distinguishing essential differences is itself discrimination and exclusion. The obligation of the state is to provide voting assistance to the persons with developmental disabilities so that they can exercise their voting rights on an equal basis with the voters without disabilities. The issue of voting assistance for the persons with developmental disabilities may be choosing what is more important: preventing voting assistance for all persons with developmental disabilities as it may infringe on the right to self-determination of those who can vote alone; or minimizing the persons being excluded from exercising the right to vote during the selection process of deciding whether he/she must receive voting assistance. However, it is important to consider that in reality not all election officials have a minimum understanding of developmental disabilities. On the other hand, in addition to simply the voting process, the rights of people with developmental disabilities need to be protected throughout the entire election process. It is necessary to seek various measures to expand the suffrage of the disabled, such as how to provide easy-to-understand information such as election notices, as in the case of many countries abroad, a method of printing candidate photos on ballots so that candidates can be easily identified, and how to motivate to vote and provide opportunities to become familiar with elections through the operation of an election experience education program that allows the voters to experience the process of elections in advance, etc. 82