General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(25 August 1992)
• Article 28, section (1) states: "It shall be the right and duty of all citizens aged over 18, other than those legally deprived of political and civil rights, to take an active part in public life, to vote and stand for election to any State body, and to fulfill their offices with full dedication to the cause of the Angolan nation."
• Article 48 states: "Disabled combatants of the national liberation struggle, the minor children of citizens who died in the war and those physically or mentally handicapped as a result of war shall have special protection, to be established by law."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(16 April 1992)
• Article 11 (Active Electoral Incapacity) disqualifies voters "obviously recognized as insane, even though they have not been disqualified by a sentence, when they are confined to a mental institution or when they are declared insane by a medical board."
• Article 52 (Information Relating to Citizens Confined to Hospital Units) states that hospitals should "send to the concerned Provincial Electoral Councils monthly lists of citizens…who have been institutionalized because of obvious insanity."

Voter Assistance By Other Citizens
Constitution:
• Article 120 (Voting by Blind and Disabled Citizens), Section 1, states that "electors who are blind and those who are affected by an obvious disease or physical disability…may vote accompanied by an elector chosen by them, who is under the obligation of absolute secrecy.
• Article 120 (Voting by Blind and Disabled Citizens), Section 2 stipulates that "if the polling officers conclude that they are unable to verify the obviousness of the disease or physical disability, they shall ask the elector to present…a certificate confirming that he is unable to carry out the operations relating to the vote…issued by the competent health authorities and authenticated by their seal.