General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1990)

• Article 6 states, “Suffrage shall be universal, equal and secret. The electors shall be, under the conditions determined by law, all Beninese nationals of both sexes over the age of eighteen and in full possession of their civil and political rights.

Exclusion Based on Disability
Constitution
(1990)

• Article 44 states, “No one may be a candidate for the office of the President of the Republic unless…-He enjoys a satisfactory state of physical and mental well-being duly verified by a collegiate board of three doctors sworn and designated by the Constitutional Court.”

Off-Site Voting
Constitution
(1994)

• Article 75 states: "People hospitalized, confined to their homes, invalids, and ill people in general can vote by proxy."

• Constitution - http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,NATLEGBOD,,BEN,,3ae6b57d4,0.html