Gabon
General Right to
Vote
Constitution
(1991, last revised 2003)
- Article 4 states, “Within the conditions provided under the law, electors are Gabonese of both genders, aged eighteen or older, benefiting from their civil and political rights.”
Electoral Law
Law on common rules for all political elections in the Gabonese Republic
(1996, last modified 2008)
- Article 25 states, “Electors are citizens of both sexes, aged 18 years, who enjoy civil and political rights, who are regularly registered on the electoral list.”
Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law
Law on common rules for all political elections in the Gabonese Republic
(1996, last modified 2008)
- Article 26 states, “The following electors are incapacitated and cannot be registered on the electoral roll...7)...minors and adults under guardianship or curatorship.”
- Article 27 states, “Electors who are struck by temporary incapacity are prevented from being on the electoral list.”
- Article 28 states, “Are also struck by a temporary electoral incapacity and cannot be registered on the electoral roll for a period set by trial; those whom the courts have forbidden the right to vote...”
Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Law on common rules for all political elections in the Gabonese Republic
(1996, last modified 2008)
- Article 98 states, “Any elector suffering from a disability that makes it impossible for him to place his ballot paper into the two envelopes and then insert these into the ballot box is authorized to be assisted by an elector of his choosing.”
Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
Law on common rules for all political elections in the Gabonese Republic
(1996, last modified 2008)
- Article 99 states, “Can exercise, at their request, the right to vote by proxy within the conditions fixed here...2) The sick, women in labor, the disabled or incurable who, due to the state of their health or physical condition cannot travel to the polling place on the day of election.”
- Constitution - http://democratie.francophonie.org/IMG/pdf/Gabon.pdf
- Electoral Law - http://www.scribd.com/doc/17768418/Loi-electorale-du-Gabon
