Armless voter gets indelible ink on toenail
GMA News
May 13, 2013

With no hands, 49-year-old Nelson Nuñez casts his vote in Aparri, Cagayan. Photo by John Consulta
(Updated 3:30 p.m.) Voter Nelson Nuñez was one of millions who cast their ballots on May 13, but just one of a handful who got indelible ink not on a fingernail but on a toenail.

Nuñez lost both his arms in a workplace accident and was among the thousands of disabled voters who trooped to polling centers on Monday, many of them beneficiaries of a Comelec campaign to register disabled citizens to vote.

He has learned to write with what was left of his upper arms, and that’s how he filled out his ballot.

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