PENGATURAN PEMENUHAN HAK PILIH AKTIF PENYANDANG TUNA NETRA DALAM PENYELENGGARAN PEMILIHAN UMUM YANG BERLANDASKAN ASAS KERAHASIAAN

Abstract

A person with visual impairment is any person who has limited vision due
to one thing or another who in interacting with the environment experiences
obstacles and difficulties to participate fully and effectiveli in the social
environment of the community. In the general election process in Indonesia,
people with visual impairments have difficulty in giving their voting rights due to
uneven access to raised letters at polling stations designated for blind people, in
practice in the field blind people who are part of persons with disabilities cannot
vote independently because more than the 20.000 polling stations at the time of
the 2019 general election did not provide embossed access for Template Braille
This research is a normative legal research, it is based on literature
research which referst to the contens of reading books or supporting books that
have a corelation with the background of the problem to be studied. This study
uses secondary date sources consisting of primary, secondary, and tertiary legal
materials. This study uses qualitative date analysis by producing a deductive
method of drawing conclusions, namely drawing conclusions from that are
general to things that are specific.
From the result of the discussion, it can be concluded that law number 7 of
2017 concerning general elections does not clearly regulate the state’s obligstion
to guarantee the fulfillmen of access for blind people in voting at polling stations
during the general election. The practice that then occured actually gave access
for other people to participate in helping blind person choose the candidate they
whoulf choose which indirectly that person would know who the candidate chosen
by the blind person was, this clearly violates the principle of confidentiality in
genera.