The three electoral agencies aim to improve services provided at general elections for people with disabilities.

We aim to:

• Improve access to the enrolment process for people with disabilities, so that they can easily enrol and keep their enrolment details up to date.
• Improve access to information about MMP and the election for people with disabilities, so that they know what the two ticks are for.
• Improve access to voting at the election for people with disabilities, so that wherever possible they can vote independently and in secret, without experiencing barriers.

Access '08: Accessibility Action plan for the 2008 General Election describes the initiatives we will implement to improve access for the next election.

Progress updates will be published on this website by 1 November 2007 and 1 May 2008.

Consultation

We consulted about potential improvements for the 2008 general election.  A consultation document, Improving access to general elections for people with disabilities  was released in October 2006 to help generate feedback for the development of an action plan for the general election. 

Submissions closed on 8 December 2006. A number of organisations and individuals from across the disability sector and the community made submissions.