General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1990, last amended 2010)

• Article 17, section (2) states, "Every citizen who has reached the age of eighteen (18) years shall have the right to vote an who has reached the age of twenty-one (21) years to be elected to public office, unless otherwise provided herein."

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1990, last amended 2010)

• Article 47, section (1) states: "No persons may become members of the National Assembly if they...(d) are of unsound mind and have been so declared by a competent Court."

Electoral Act
(1992, last amended 2003)

• Section 13, subsection (2) states, “No person shall be entitled to be registered as a voter if- (a) he or she is subject to an order of the court declaring him or her to be of unsound mind or mentally disordered or defective; or (b) he or she is detained asa mentally ill person under the provision of any law.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Act
(1992, last amended 2003)

• Section 82, subsection (5), part (c) states, “The provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) and of paragraph (b) of this subsection and of subsection (8) [all relating to the use of indelible ink on fingers to record voting] shall nto apply in the case of a voter who suffers from a physical defect which, in the opinion of the presiding officer, makes the application of the said provisions impossible.”
• Section 84, subsection (1) states, "A presiding officer or polling officer shall not assist or instruct a voter in the manner of voting at a polling station unless (a) a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical disability from voting in a manner prescribed by the other provisions of this Part, requests in person the presiding officer or polling officer, to so assist him or her in the manner directed by him or her to record his or her vote, but without interfering with the exercising of his or her franchise..."
• Section 84, subsection (2) states, "The presiding officer, on the request in person of any voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed by the other provisions of this Part, who has not requested to have his or her vote recorded by the presiding officer in terms of subsection (1) and who is accompanied by any other person, shall, if he or she is satisfied that such person is any family relative or friend of such voter and has reached the age of 18 years, permit such voter to vote with the assistance of the person accompanying him or her, and upon such permission being granted anything which is by the provisions of this Part required to be done or by the said voter in connection with the recording of his or her vote may be done to or with the assistance of the person so accompanying him or her."

• Constitution - http://209.88.21.36/opencms/export/sites/default/grnnet/AboutNamibia/constitution/constitution1.pdf
• Electoral Law (and amending acts) - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/index_html?filter&topic=&country=Namibia&type=Laws and Regulations