Voters enter a baseball stadium used as a polling station on Election Day. Voter Education – IFES supported the JCE’s efforts to target the disability community through the production of a TV spot.53 The video featured persons with disabilities participating in their communities. For the first time, the election management body also included sign language interpretation in the video. The voter education spot was widely broadcast, spanning eight TV channels and the websites of the JCE, the National Council on Disability and a presidential candidate. The day before the election, it was the most-viewed video on the JCE’s website. The JCE actually included sign language on all official videos and on programs aired on their TV station, which was another first. Mainstream Election Observation – IFES mainstreamed the inclusion of disability in observation efforts by drafting seven questions focused on access for persons with disabilities. IFES worked with the national election observation group Participación Ciudadana (PC) to include these questions in their checklist as they deployed 3,000 observers across the country. Section 6 Election Access Observation – IFES trained 22 persons with disabilities, a majority of whom were young women, to be election access observers. Observers learned how to use a specially-developed checklist that focused exclusively on access issues. Election access observers were assigned to polling stations across the nation on Election Day. Recommendations to JCE – Based on barriers identified in election access observation reports, IFES and La Red prepared recommendations to the JCE on how to make future elections more accessible. The JCE actively sought the advice of DPOs and the National Council on Disability on how to improve the process. EMB Training – The JCE committed 155 of its staff from across the country to attend a full-day training course on electoral inclusion led by IFES and La Red. Members of each regional office developed action plans to put what they learned into practice. 53 “Tu derecho a elegir!” YouTube. Junta Central Electoral, May 12, 2012. <http://www.youtube.com/ watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZojfAqP8K_U>. Equal Access: How to Include Persons with Disabilities in Elections and Political Processes 71