General Right to Vote
Constitution

• Article 26, section (1) states, “The National Council is elected by the nation in accordance with the principles of proportional representation on the basis of equal, direct, secret and personal vote for men and women who at the latest with expiry of election day have completed the eighteenth year of life.”

Electoral Law
Parliamentary Election Law
(1992, last amended 2002)

• Section 21, subsection (1) states, “All men and women have the right to vote, provided they have the Austrian citizenship, have reached the age of 18 before 1st January of the year of the election, and are not excluded from the right to vote.”

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Constitution

• Article 7, section (1) states, “All nationals (Austrian citizens) are equal before the law. Privileges based upon birth, sex, estate, class or religion are excluded. No one shall be discriminated against because of his disability. The Republic (Federation, Laender and municipalities) commits itself to ensuring the equal treatment of disabled and non-disabled persons in all spheres of everyday life.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Parliamentary Election Law
(1992, last amended 2002)

• Section 52, subsection (5) states, “Subject to facilities opportunities, each community and district in Vienna shall provide for establishing at least one polling station easily accessible for handicapped people. For blind voters and such persons with heavy visual defects appropriate guiding systems shall be provided subject to technical opportunities.”
• Section 66 states...
•  The right to vote shall be exercised personally; the blind or persons with heavy visual defects shall be provided by the electoral authority with a stencil as an aid to enable their exercising the vote themselves. Physically or mentally handicapped voters may have a person at their side to guide and help them with the act of voting, to be chosen by themselves and confirmed vis-à-vis the polling officer. Apart from these cases, the voting booth may only be entered by one person at a time.
• Persons shall be deemed physically or mentally handicapped who cannot be required to fill out the official ballot paper without the aid of another person.
• In doubtful cases the electoral authority shall decide on the admissibility of an assisting person. Any casting of ballot with the aid of an assisting person shall be laid down in a note.
• Anyone who falsely pretends to be blind, heavily visually handicapped or physically handicapped commits an administrative offence and will be punished by the district administrative authority with a maximum fine of up to 218 Euros...

• Constitution - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/europe/AT/Austria%20Conststitution.pdf/view
• Election Law - http://www.legislationonline.org/topics/country/44/topic/6