General Right to Vote
Electoral Law:
(11 September 1986: Law No. 18, 556)
• Article 27 states that the Election Registry shall be recorder in books, and the pages with "vertical columns on each page employed as follows…signature of the person registered or note that the person registered is blind or illiterate, stamped by the Election Board, and…right thumb print of the registered person, or left, if the right is missing, or note certifying the absolute impossibility of obtaining a thumbprint."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
• Article 16 states "The right to vote is suspended...in the case of interdiction on the grounds of insanity…"

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law:
(6 May 1988)
• Article 40 states: "The following persons may not be returning officers… foreigners, blind persons, illiterates."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Summary of Election Registration Law
• Members of the Election Registration Boards must be over21 years of age, literate, sighted and residents of their election district.

Voter Assistance By Other Citizens
Poll Worker Manuals:
Poll Worker Instruction Guide (1989)
• Voters with visual impairment may be accompanied to the identification table, but they must enter the polling booth alone.

Voter Assistance Using Adaptive Techniques
Poll Worker Manuals:
Poll Worker Instruction Guide (1989)
• Blind Voter Ballot Template Provision

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Poll Worker Manuals:
Poll Worker Instruction Guide (1989)
• Voters with a physical disability who cannot enter the polling place may be given their ballot outside of the polling place, provided that the poll workers assure the secrecy of their vote. Sec. 3.4.2