NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – July 2022 elevators, but exceptions are allowed under the proviso clause which should be supplemented by the installation of a temporary pooling booth, but they are not properly managed. ㅇ In addition, people residing in hospitals or nursing homes can apply for homevoting, but there were cases where patients at psychiatric institutions could not apply for home-voting due to insufficient information. □ Recommendations ㅇ For all persons with disabilities to participate in all elections and referendums without discrimination, the Public Official Election Act should be amended to make it mandatory to provide sign language and subtitles in election broadcasts or speeches, to ensure access of persons with visual disabilities to election-related information and provision for campaign bulletins with the same information as non-disabled people, and to provide easy-to-read campaign bulletins for persons with developmental disabilities and voting aids suitable for them such as picture ballots. In addition, the provision on exception stipulated in Article 67 (2) (Installation and facilities of pooling station) of the Management Rule on Public Official Election should be deleted. ㅇ People living in hospitals or nursing homes should receive information on homevoting, and supervision and instruction are needed to prevent fraud such as proxy vote in the case of home-voting. ㅇ In addition, the government should take measures to prevent a decision-making abilities of an individual from being used to justify the exclusion of persons with disabilities from exercising political rights including the right to vote. In this context, it is necessary to review the introduction of a public assistant so that voting rights can be exercised according to the will and preference of persons with disabilities, and detailed guidelines should be devised to ensure the proper provision of voting assistance including assistants. 50