Opinions on the first National Report of Korea on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities deliver information on the candidate and political party to persons with disabilities on an equal basis with persons without disabilities. However, the Public Official Election Act states the provision of closed captioning and sign language interpretation for persons with hearing disability and the use of voting assistant tools for persons with visual disability as optional. ② The Public Official Election Act stipulates that candidates may produce a Type 1 Braille campaign gazette for persons with visual disabilities in addition to a booklet-type campaign gazette, but the number of pages of the former shall not exceed that of the latter. The fact is, printing information in Braille consumes more pages than ordinary printing in booklets, but such an aspect is not taken into account in the Act. ③ When the general election was held on June 4, 2014, a total of 3,508 preliminary polling stations were established across the country. While accessibility may have been ensured with 330 polling stations installed on the ground floor, 772 polling stations with elevators and 38 with wheelchair lifts for wheelchairs, approx. 70% of the entire polling stations were not accessible to voters on wheelchairs. Some constituencies did not even have one single polling station installed on the ground floor. ④ Since the Anti-Discrimination Act against Persons with Disabilities came into effect, a total of 147 complaints about the voting rights of persons with disabilities were filed with the Commission by June 30, 2014. Complaints keep repeating on the violation of voting rights of persons with disabilities, such as polling stations not installed on the ground floor, which hindered persons on wheelchairs from casting votes, Braille ballots not provided during preliminary voting, voting assistance tools not provided to persons with visual disabilities(so accompanying family members had to cast proxy votes) and lack of information accessibility in the homepages of public office candidates. NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA 38