General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(December 1990)
• Article 45, section (1) states, "All citizens of the Republic who have reached the age of eighteen years have universal and equal suffrage. This right is to be exercised at direct elections by secret ballot."

Voter Assistance By Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1999)
• Article 83, paragraph (1) states, "A voter who because of some physical disability or illiteracy would not be able to vote on his/her own, may come to the polling station accompanied by another person who is literate and who will following such person's authorization and instructions circle the ordinal number in front of the name of the list or in front of the name of the candidate for whom the voter is voting."
• Article 44, paragraph 2 states "A voter who is unable to come to the polling station shall inform the electoral committee accordingly. The president of the electoral committee shall designate at least two members of the electoral committee or their deputies to visit the voter's location and make it possible for him/her to vote, taking into account the secrecy of voting."
• Article 44, paragraph 3 states, "In the case of the voting of a person with physical disability, an illiterate person or any voting carried out outside the polling station upon preliminary information received from the voter, the president of the electoral committee shall indicate the names of such persons in the minutes of the work of the electoral committee."
Poll Worker Manuals:
(1997: Voting and Counting Procedures)
• 7.7 states "A Disabled or Illiterate Voter," who is unable to vote because of blindness, physical disability or because of illiteracy, may be accompanied to the Polling Station with some other literate person who shall, upon the voter's authorization and instructions, mark the ballot papers for the voter. The name of the voter who needed assistance in voting must be entered into the Minutes."

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(1999)
• Article 44, paragraph 2 states "A voter who is unable to come to the polling station shall inform the electoral committee accordingly. The president of the electoral committee shall designate at least two members of the electoral committee or their deputies to visit the voter's location and make it possible for him/her to vote, taking into account the secrecy of voting."
Poll Worker Manuals:
(1997: Voting and Counting Procedures)
• 7.8 states "Mobile Voting will be available for those who are unable to vote at the Polling Station because the voter is in the hospital, sick at home, or is immobile, but only if the voter is accessible to the Polling Station and if the voter has given sufficient prior notice to the Polling Station Committee Chairman. The Chairman shall send two Members or Deputy Members to the place where the voter is 1located and must provide the opportunity for the voter to mark the ballot papers in secrecy. The voter must fold each of the five ballot papers in half and place each ballot paper inside a separate envelope which the voter will seal closed in front of the two Committee Members. The name of the election must be written on the front of the envelope. When the Committee Members return to the Polling Station they shall insert each of the five envelopes into the appropriate ballot box. The name of the person who needed to vote in this manner must be entered in the Minutes."