General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1993)
• Article 32, section (2) states, "Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to elect and to be elected to bodies of state governance and to organs of local self-government, as well as take part in a referendum."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution
(1993)
• Article 32, section (3) states, "Citizens who have been found by a court of law to be under special disability, and also citizens placed in detention under a court verdict, shall not have the right to elect or to be elected."
Electoral Law:
(20 June 1999: On Elections to State Duma)
• Article 4 concerns eligibility for voting and standing for office. Section 6 states: "A citizen of the Russian Federation found incapable by a court or kept in placed of confinement under a court sentence shall have no right to elect or be elected."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(20 June 1999: On Elections to State Duma)
• Article 73, section 8 states: "If a voter is not able to sign for the receipt of each ballot by himself/herself, he/she may ask other persons to help him/her, if these persons are not members of the election commission, registered candidates, agents of registered candidates, electoral associations, electoral blocs and their authorized representatives, observers, foreign (international) observers. The person who has helped the voter shall put his/her signature in the column (columns) 'Voter signature for Receipt of Ballot' of the voter list indicating his/her first, middle and last name, the series and number of the passport or an equivalent identity paper."
• Article 73, section 10 states: "A voter who is not able to mark the ballot by himself/herself may be assisted by another voter who is not a member of the election commission, registered candidate, agent of a registered candidate, an electoral association, electoral bloc, their authorized representative, observer, foreign (international) observer. In this case, the voter shall orally inform the election commission of his/her intention to ask for assistance in marking the ballot. The first, middle and last name, series and number of the passport or an equivalent identity paper of the person assisting the voter shall be indicated in the appropriate column (columns) of the voter list."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Precinct Election Committee Member Handbook: Produced by the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (1995)
• A voter who cannot fill in the ballot by himself may invite "any person except for a member of the election committee, observers, attorneys of candidates, electoral associations or electoral blocs to the ballot booth" in order to assistant him/her p 8

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(20 June 1999: On Elections to State Duma)
• Article 75 discusses provisions for "Voting Outside the Voting Premises on Voting Day." Section 1 provides this service "to enable voters to vote if they are entitled to be or are included on the voter list of the given electoral precinct but are unable to come on their own to the voting premises for valid reasons (poor health, physical disability, etc.)."