General Right to Vote
Constitution
(Jaunuary 2010)

• Article 54, section 1 states, “Every citizen who has attained the age of eighteen years shall have the right to vote and stand for election for any state or local authority body and to serve their terms of office or mandates, under the terms of the Constitution and the law.”
• Article 83, section 1 states, “Disabled citizens shall fully enjoy the rights and be subject to the duties enshrined in the Constitution, without prejudice to any restrictions on the exercise or fulfilment of rights and duties they are unable, or not fully able, to enjoy or carry out.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(January 2010)

• Article 154, section 1 states, “The following shall be ineligible for election as Members: d) individuals legally defined as incapacitated.”

Electoral Law
Electoral Law
(2004)

• Article 12 states, “The following persons do not enjoy active electoral capacity...b) those notoriously recognised as demented when interned in a medical establishment or when so declared by a doctor’s certificate, even if not interdicted by a judgement.”

Electoral Registration Law
(July 2005)

• Article 40 states, “1. The authorities or persons responsible for hospital units shall send to the registration authority at the place of registration, on a monthly basis, a list containing the identification details, which are referred to in Article 38, of the citizens who have reached 18 years of age and have been hospitalised for proven and recognized dementia resulting from a psychiatric anomaly, but who are not interdicted by virtue of a final unappealable sentence, and shall send, on an annual basis, during o period of registration, a list of those persons who having been interned under the aforesaid conditions will have reached 18 years of age by the end of the period of registration. 2. The same procedure shall be adopted when the citizens referred to in the previous paragraph, have been released from the hospital unit.”
• 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
Electoral Law
(2004)

• Article 119, section 2 states, “The chairperson of the Polling Station shall give voting priority to voters charged with protection and security services for the polling stations, as well as the elderly, handicapped persons, and pregnant women.”
• Article 127 states, “Voters with a patent physical handicap, which the Polling Station officials verify will be unable on their own to carry out the different voting operations provided for under this law, may vote accompanied by a citizen voter of their choice and who shall be bound by absolute confidentiality.”
• Article 128 states, “Any citizens who of the not know how to read or write may vote by using their finger dipped in the appropriate ink to make a mark in the respective box of the candidate for whom they wish to vote.”

• Constitution - http://www.embangola-can.org/pdf/constituition.pdf
• Electoral Law - http://www.constitutionnet.org/files/Angola%20-%20Law%20No%207%2004%2017%20of%20June_0.pdf
• Electoral Registration Law - http://www.constitutionnet.org/files/Angola%20-%20Law%20No%203%2005%201%20of%20July.pdf