General Right to Vote
Constitution
(21 October 1998)

• Article 45, section (1) states, "Every citizen who has reached the age of 18, even on the date of the elections, has the right to elect and to be elected."

Electoral Law
(29 December 2008)

• Article 3, section 3 states, “Every Albanian citizen, who has reached the age of 18, including on election day, without distinction according to race, ethnicity, gender, language, political conviction, religious belief, physical ability or economic condition, has the right to vote and to be elected in accordance with the rules provided in this Code.”
• Article 45, section 1 states, “Every Albanian citizen who has reached the age of 18 on the election date and who meets the conditions provided in this Code has the right to vote in elections for the Assembly.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(21 October 1998)

• Article 27, section (2) states, "The liberty of a person may not be limited, except in the following cases...(d) when a person is the carrier of a contagious disease, mentally incompetent and dangerous to society..."
• Article 45, section (2) states, "citizens who have been declared mentally incompetent by a final court decision do not have the right to elect."

Electoral Law
(29 December 2008)

• Article 45, section 2 states, “Citizens declared by final court decision to lack the capacity to act are excluded from the right to vote.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
(29 December 2008)

• Article 108, section 1 states, “A voter who for physical reasons is unable to perform the voting procedures himself may request the help of a family member or another voter who is on the voter list for that polling unit. Both voters must be present in the voting centre when this procedure is used.”
• Article 108, section 6 states, “Within the period of the revision of voter lists, voters specified in point 1 of this article have the right to request that the mayor of the local government unit that prepares the voter list for the respective voting centre register them as voters who cannot vote themselves. The request for registration is to be accompanied by official documentation that proves the type and category of disability. The registration as a voter who cannot vote himself is carried out to facilitate the voting process for these voters.”
• Article 108, section 7 states, “In any case when there are voters registered according to point 6 of this article who have difficulties accessing voting centre premises, the voting centres are designated and organized in such a manner as to guarantee free access for this category of voters. If this is impossible, in compliance with the instructions of the CEC and at CEC expense, the mayors of the local government units appoint support personnel or equipment to guarantee free access.”
• Article 108, section 8 states, “In case of blind voters, the mayor of the local government unit notifies the CEC about the number of blind voters and their voting centres. The CEC, in accordance with the procedures and time frame for the distribution of the election materials, supplies the commissions of these voting centres with special voting devices that allow the voters to read or understand the ballot paper and vote independently. A blind voter shall be informed by the VCC of the manner of voting with special voting devices and shall be supplied with them upon his request. Otherwise, the voter votes according to points 1 and 3 of this article.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
(29 December 2008)

• Article 2, section (2) defines "special institutions" as "...prisons, places of pre-detention, hospitals or other health institutions that accept patients for more than three days."
• Article 59, section 1 states, “Special institutions comprise a separate polling unit. The voting centre in these institutions is to be established even when they house 15 to 100 voters.”
• Article 59, section 5 states, “In hospitals and other healthcare institutions that accept patients for more than 10 days, the procedures provided in points 2 and 3 of this article are completed 30 days prior to the election date.”

• Constitution - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/europe/AL/Albanian%20Constitution.pdf/view
• Electoral Code - http://www.venice.coe.int/docs/2009/CDL(2009)005-e.pdf