On average, only 30 percent of people who have a learning disability vote in elections. And, while 70 percent of people who have a learning disability want to vote, 60 percent find the process too difficult.
In contrast, 63.5 percent of the wider population voted in the 2021 Scottish Parliament Election.
#ENABLEtheVote works across the political spectrum, empowering people who have a learning disability to:
We do this by:
More than 80 percent of people who engaged with #ENABLEtheVote used their vote in the Scottish Parliamentary Election in 2021, and 91 percent used their vote in the Local Council Elections in 2017.
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