General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1993, last amended 2004)

• Section 20, subsection (1) states, “Every citizen of Lesotho shall enjoy the right...(b) to vote or stand for election at periodic electiosn under this Constitution under a system of universal and equal suffrage and secret ballot.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1993, last amended 2004)

• Section 57, subsection (3) states, "No person shall be qualified to be registered as an elector in elections to the National Assembly who, at the date of his application to be registered...(c) is, under any law in force in Lesotho, adjudged or declared to be of unsound mind."
• Section 59, subsection (1) states, “No person shall be qualified to be nominated as a Senator by the King acting in accordance with the advice of the Council of State or designated by a Principal Chief as a Senator in his place and no person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the National Assembly if, at the date of his nomination or designation or, as the case may be, at the date of his nomination for election, he— (c) is under any law in force in Lesotho, adjudged or otherwise declared to be of unsound mind.”

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Constitution
(1993, last amended 2004)

• Section 58, subsection (1) states, "Subject to the provisions of section 59 of this Constitution, a person shall be qualified to be elected as a member of the National Assembly if, and shall not be so qualified unless, at the date of his nomination for election, he...(b) is able to speak, and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read and write either the Sesotho or English language well enough to take an active part in the proceedings of the National Assembly.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
National Assembly Election Order
(1992, last amended 2004)

• Section 78, subsection (3) states, “Except I nthe case of an an elector who has no hands, the presiding officer shall refuse to issue a ballot paper to an elector who refuses to display his or her hands to a polling officer for inspection so a to enable the officer to determine whether or not the elector has already voted at the election.”
• Section 81 subsection (1) states, "On attending a polling station for the purpose of voting at an election, an elector who claims to be incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed in section 79 may request the presiding officer for permission to vote with the assistance of a person who is accompanying the elector."
• Section 81 subsection (2) continues, "If the presiding officer is satisfied (a) that the person who is accompanying the elector is a relative or friend of the elector; and (b) the elector is incapacitated as referred to in subsection (1).”
• Section 81 subsection (3) concludes, "If permission is granted under this section, anything which is required by or under this Order to be done to or by an elector with respect to voting at an election may be done to or with the assistance of the person accompanying the elector, but that person that shall mark the ballot paper issued to the elector in accordance with the elector's wishes."

• Constitution - http://library2.parliament.go.th/giventake/content_cons/lesotho.pdf
• National Assembly Election Order (and amending acts) - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/index_html?filter&topic=&country=Lesotho&type=Laws and Regulations