Some 300 visually impaired men and women in the Community of Madrid have benefited from the Braille accessible voting kit. The procedure has been done by people with partial or total visual impairment since the 2008 elections, after Royal Decree 1612/2007 was approved.
"It was a great achievement to ensure that blind people could vote autonomously, freely and in secret, as everyone does," says Ángel Llena, a man with total blindness who exercised his right to vote. "There are so many candidacies and Madrid city councils that it is difficult to do so," he adds.