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Romania

General Right to Vote
Electoral Law:
(1992: On Elections…Chamber of Deputies and Senate)
• Article 1 states: "The Chamber of Deputies and the Senate shall be elected by universal, equal, direct, secret, and freely expressed suffrage, under the conditions of the present law."

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Electoral Law:
(1992: On Elections…Chamber of Deputies and Senate)
• Article 46 states: "The handicapped will enjoy special protection. The state will ensure the implementation of a national policy of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, education, training, and social integration of the handicapped, respecting the rights and duties of parents and guardians."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1991)
• Article 34, section (2) states: "Retarded or mentally-disturbed persons deprived of the right to vote, as well as persons sentenced by final judicial decision to the loss of voting rights, do not have the right to vote."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1992: On Elections…Chamber of Deputies and Senate)
• Article 58, section (2) states: "An elector who, for good reasons, found by the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station, cannot vote alone shall have the right to call into the polling-booth an attendant of his or her own choice for helping him. This person cannot be one of the observers or members of the electoral bureau of the polling station."

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(1992: On Elections…Chamber of Deputies and Senate)
• Article 19, section (1) states: "Separate polling station can be organized in military units as well as in hospitals, maternity hospitals, sanatoria, invalid homes, and homes for aged people, having at least fifty electors."
• Article 59 states: "For the electors who are not capable of being removed for reasons of illness or invalidity, at the request of those who are in this situation, or of the administration bodies of the health or social protection institutions in which those who are not capable of being removed are confined, the president of the electoral bureau of the polling station shall designate, from among members of the bureau, a number of persons to go with a special ballot-box and the necessary material for voting to the place where the elector is confined so that the polling may be effected."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Basic Information on Elections: Produced by Romania Central Electoral Bureau (1990)
• "For persons unable to walk to the polling stations, members of the Electoral Bureau shall go to their places in order to accomplish election (a special ballot box is made for this purpose)" p 7

 
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