The Commission on Elections will hold a special voters’ registration for persons with disabilities today in the cities of Bayawan, Dumaguete, Tanjay, Bais and Canlaon, Negros Oriental.

Requirements for registration are a valid ID card or a birth certificate proving that the PWD is 18 years old, Hazel Aurea, certified voters’ list technician of the Comelec provincial office, said.

She urged the registrants to bring a ball pen for the faster processing of documents.

Aladdin Rosalinas, president of the Dumaguete City Handicapped Association, said the special registration in Dumaguete City will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the PWD Training Center, beside the City Social Welfare and Development Office at Rizal Boulevard.

The simultaneous activity is in line with Comelec’s effort to make its services accessible to PWDs.

In Dumaguete City, PWDs have to climb to the second floor of the public market building where the Comelec office is located. Today, the registrations are held in venues easily accessible to them, Aurea said.

Comelec is appealing to PWDs in the five cities to sign up and be counted since last year’s registration had a low turnout of registrants.

It earlier announced a Visayas-wide PWD satellite registration in Regions 6, 7 and 8.

A report released by Vera Files showed that, based on Comelec records, the provinces of Western Samar, Negros Oriental, Leyte, Capiz, Cebu, Northern Samar, Bohol, Antique, Eastern Samar, Aklan and Iloilo are among the top 30 with the highest registered PWD voters as of July 2011.*PIA

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