CEDAW/C/GC/40 women’s limited access to candidate information, voter registration challenges linked to caring responsibilities and financial constraints that limit their time to follow campaigns and turn out to vote, as well as stereotypes discouraging women from voting or leading to attempts by men to influence or control women’s voting. Women may also face additional barriers to voting due to the lack of or control over necessary identification documents. 43. The Committee recommends that States parties: (a) Repeal discriminatory voting and nationality laws and ensure that women can exercise their right to vote on equal terms with men; (b) Implement civic education campaigns including targeting youth, to promote voter registration, election knowledge, turnout at elections and combat stereotypes on women’s roles in public life; (c) Collect and publish disaggregated data on voting participation by women in marginalized situations in order to develop effective measures to boost their involvement; (d) Facilitate voter registration and turnout for women by providing assistance in obtaining identification documents and ensure systematic birth registration of girls; (e) Identify and eliminate other barriers to voter registration and participation in elections for women, including via extended voting hours, early voting periods, polling stations close to women’s homes, free and accessible public transportation, and mail and remote voting technologies, as appropriate; (f) Develop strategies for illiterate women to ensure that they can register and vote; (g) Recognize the legal capacity of women with disabilities to vote and provide accessible polling stations and voting procedures with assistive tools, including Braille and sign language; (h) Recruit women polling officers and, where appropriate, establish women-only polling stations to boost women’s turnout; (i) Ensure integrity and transparency of voting processes and combat corruption in electoral processes; (j) Eliminate potential coercion of women voters by prohibiting family voting and ensuring women’s rights to privacy in voting and secrecy of the ballot, including by ensuring their full control over both paper and digital forms of identification; (k) Include the history of women’s suffrage and of their right to stand for election in school curricula and in awareness-raising campaigns targeting the general public and office holders. (b) Right to stand for election 44. The right of women to stand for election to any public body is established in article 7 (a). The Committee observes, however, that the number of women candidates remains structurally limited and that women candidates remain subjected to significant discrimination in this area. 24-20036 19/29