General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1993, last amended 2000)

• Article 114 states, “A person who is a citizen of the Seychelles and has attained the age of eighteen years is entitled to be registered as a voter unless the person is disqualified from registration...”

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Constitution
(1993, last amended 2000)

• Article 36 states, "The State recognizes the right of the aged and the Right of the disabled to special protection and with a view to ensuring the effective exercise of this right undertakes (a) to make reasonable provision for improving quality of life of and for the welfare and maintenance of the aged and disabled; (b) to promote programs specifically aimed at achieving the greatest possible development of the disabled."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution
(1993, last amended 2000)

• Article 114, subsection (1) states, "A person who is a citizen of Seychelles and has attained the age of eighteen years is entitled to be registered as a voter unless the person is disqualified from registration under an Act on the ground of (a) infirmity of mind."

Electoral Law
Elections Act
1996

• Section 5, subsection (1) states, "Every citizen of Seychelles entitled to be registered as a voter under article 114 of the Constitution shall, if the citizen resides in an electoral area, be registered as a voter in that area unless the citizen...(b) is under any written law, adjudged or otherwise declared to be of unsound mind or detained as a criminal lunatic or at the pleasure of the President..."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law
Elections Act
(1996)

• Section 25, subsection (3) states, "Where a voter is incapacitated by blindness, or other physical cause...the voter shall, after receiving the ballot paper or the ballot papers, as the case may be, enter the compartment or place designated for the purpose by the Electoral Officer and a person selected by the voter and in the presence of the person selected direct the Electoral Officer how the vote is to be cast and the Electoral Officer shall in the presence of the person selected mark the ballot paper or the ballot papers, of the voter accordingly, fold the ballot paper or ballot papers in such manner as not to reveal the identity of the candidate for whom the vote has been recorded and after leaving the compartment or the place designated for the purpose by the Electoral Officer with the voter and the other person place the ballot paper or ballot papers in the ballot box provided for this purpose and the voter shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have voted."

• Constitution - http://www.ecs.sc/resources/Constitution_.pdf
• Elections Act - http://www.ecs.sc/resources/Rev29-election%20laws.pdf