How Japanese voters with disabilities participate in general elections

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Other Title
  • 障害等のある有権者や寝たきりの有権者はどのように投票に参加してきたのか？
  • 「投票権保障」と「選挙の公正」の間

Description

This paper focuses on the voting system for voters with disabilities such as regarding voting in institutions, hospitals, and homes for the elderly, voting by post, proxy voting, and braille voting, and it also examines how the number of voters who can use these systems and procedures has changed, as well as how these changes affect participation in voting and violations of the Public Offices Election Act including interference in an election or electoral fraud. The paper also examines reasons why there have been no salient changes. The results indicate that the number of voters expected to use this system has been increasing, while there has been no increase in violations of the Public Offices Election Act. One reason for this is that the scope of voting was expanded from the viewpoint of “guaranteeing rights to vote,” but the procedures necessary for voting were tightened from the viewpoint of “fairness in elections.”

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390856351209378688
  • DOI
    10.14854/jaes.35.2_54
  • ISSN
    18840353
    09123512
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
  • Abstract License Flag
    Disallowed

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