• Total examination of election law needed by French speaker

General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(25 March 1996)
• Article 61 "Direct Elections, Electoral Rights" section (1) states: "The members of the House of Representatives are elected directly by citizens who have completed the age of eighteen and who do not fall within the categories of exclusion stipulated by law."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(source: IPU)
• Disqualification from voting: insanity…as long as the persons concerned remain in an incapacitated state
• Qualifications for office: full possession of civil and political rights

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
• Article 147 grants proxy voting to "the voters who are not able, due to illness or infirmity, to go to or to be driven to the polling station. This incapacity must be proven in a medical certificate… The voters…can only designate their husband or wife as proxy, or a parent or relative up to the third remove, on condition that the proxy is also a voter"