General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1991, as amended 2004)

• Article 38 states, "Electoral Rights" states: "Citizens of the Republic of Belarus shall have the right to vote freely and to be elected to state bodies on the basis of universal, equal, and direct suffrage by secret ballot."

Electoral Law

• Article 3 states, “Elections of the President of the Republic of Belarus, Deputies of the Chamber of Representatives, Deputies of Local Councils of Deputies are free and are held on the basis of universal, equal and direct suffrage at vote by secret ballot.”
• The above provisions of article 3 are repeated in article 4.

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
(October 2000, as amended 2006)

• Article 4 states, “Citizens recognized incapable by the court, persons kept by the court verdict in places of deprivation of liberty do not participate in elections, referendum. Persons in relation to whom, in the order established by the criminal procedural legislation, the measure of preventive punishment - custody was elected do not take part in voting.”

• Constitution - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/index_html?filter&topic=&country=Belarus&type=Constitutions
• Electoral Law - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/europe/BY/Electoral%20Code%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20Belarus.pdf/view