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Burkina
Faso
General Right to
Vote
Constitution:
(27 January 1997)
Article 1 states: "All citizens are born free and equal in
the law. Discrimination due to race, ethnicity, origin, sex, color, language,
religion, social position, political opinions, or born into wealth/poverty
is prohibited by the law."
Article 33 states: "Voting directly or indirectly is exercised
within the provisions of the law. Voting directly is always performed
equally, secretively, and universally."
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(1998)
Article 29 states: "Anybody over the age of 18 years old and
registered may vote as long as they are not incapacitated in the eyes
of the law."
Article 31 states: "The following are not allowed to register
3.
Major incompetents, 4. Those who have lost their civic and political rights."
Voter Assistance
by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1998)
Article 74 states: "Any infirm or handicapped voter may pick
an assistant to aid in voting or a member of the bureau of voting."
Polling Manual:
(1998)
"Assisted voting is permitted with the citizen's choice of
an individual of their choosing or a member of the bureau of voting"(page
18).
"One cannot vote by proxy"(page 18).
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