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Paragraph 33
 

33. The accessibility of voters is provided in different sections of the draft amendments. The amended Article 2 part 5 obliges public authorities to take measures necessary for voter accessibility. Article 10 part 3.1 enables voters with “mobility (locomotor) difficulties” to be included in the list of voters of the accessible polling station preferable for them and to vote in the polling station accessible to them. The same article allows the submission of such applications both electronically and on paper, to be signed in an acceptable way, including digitally. Article 17 part 2 is also revised to ensure “as much as possible, the unhindered entry and exit and movement of persons with disabilities, those with mobility (locomotor) difficulties in the polling station.” Article 58 provides that “the voting booth shall enable the electors with disabilities and mobility (locomotor) difficulties to exercise their suffrage in an unhindered way, by keeping the secrecy of voting”.