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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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