General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1992, last amended 2006)

• Article 30, section (3) states, "The right to vote is universal, equal, and direct and is exercised by means of secret ballot. Conditions for exercising the right to vote will be set out in a law."

Election Law
Law On Elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic
(2004)

• Section 2, subsection (1) states, “A person has the right to vote in elections for the National Council of the Slovak Republic…if he or she (an “elector”) is a citizen of the Slovak Republic and is at least eighteen years old on polling day.”

Act on Election of the President of the Slovak Republic
(1999, last amended 2008)

• Section 1, subsection (2) states, “The right to elect the president of the Slovak Republic…shall be conferred to citizens of the Slovak Republic who will have completed 18 years of age as of the election day and who will be in the territory of the Slovak Republic on the election day.”

Act on Elections to the Bodies of Self-government Regions
(2001)

• Section 2, subsection (1) states, “The persons eligible to vote the bodies of self-government regions…must be citizens of the Slovak Republic or the foreign nationals resident in the municipality within the territory of the self-government region, or must be resident in the military area within the relevant constituency for the purposes of the elections of the bodies of self-government regions, and 18 years of age on the day of the poll.”

Act on Elections to Municipalities’ Self-Government Authorities
(1990, last amended 2007)

• Section 2, subsection (1) states, “The right to elect members of the municipalities’ self-government authorities shall be conferred to citizens of the Slovak Republic who have permanent residence in a municipality, borough of the capital of the Slovak Republic Bratislava or in a borough of the Kosice city and who will have completed 18 years of age as of the election day.”

Act on European Parliamentary Elections
(2003)

• Section 2, subsection (1) states, “A person shall be entitled to vote in the elections if he is a citizen of the Slovak Republic who is at least 18 years old on polling day and has permanent residence in the Slovak Republic, or if he is a citizen of another Member State of the European union…who is at least 18 years old on polling day and has permission to reside permanently in the Slovak Republic.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
Law On Elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic
(2004)

• Section 2, subsection (2) states, “A person is disqualified from exercising the right to vote if he or she is…c) deprived of legal capacity.”

Act on Elections to the Bodies of Self-government Regions
(2001)

• Section 2, subsection (2) states, “The execution of the voting right is impossible due to…(c) incapacitation.”

Act on Elections to Municipalities’ Self-Government Authorities
(1990, last amended 2007)

• Section 2, subsection (2) states, “The following shall be deemed an impediment to the exercise of the right to vote…d) deprivation or limitation of legal capacity.”

Act on European Parliamentary Elections
(2003)

• Section 2, subsection (3) states, “The exercise of the electoral franchise shall be precluded by…c) deprivation of legal capacity.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Law On Elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic
(2004)

• Section 12, subsection (3) states, “For an elector who is a resident in a health care facility, a social services facility or similar facility…the polling district commission for the polling district whereof the facility is located shall ensure, in cooperation with the head of the facility, that the elector has an opportunity to exercise his or her electoral franchise.”
• Section 30, subsection (6) states, “An elector who is unable to mark a ballot paper owing to physical disability, or an inability to read or write, shall have the right to be accompanied in the polling booth by another elector, who is not a member of the polling district commission, for the purpose of marking his or her ballot paper as he or she instructs and placing it in the envelope.”
• Section 30, subsection (9) states, “An elector who owing to physical disability is not able to place the envelope into the ballot box may on request have it done on his or her behalf and in his or her presence by another elector who is not a member of the polling district commission.”

Act on Election of the President of the Slovak Republic
(1999, last amended 2008)

• Section 21, subsection (5) states, “A qualified elector who is unable to mark the ballot paper personally due to being disabled or due to being unable to read or write, shall be entitled to take another qualified elector to the polling booth designated for marking of ballot papers, however not a member of the Precinct Election Committee, so that such person can mark the ballot paper on his/her behalf and put it in the envelope.”
• Section 21, section (8) states, “Should a qualified elector not be able to put the envelop in a ballot box personally due to being disabled, another qualified elector may do so on his/her behalf upon his/her request and in his/her presence, however this cannot be a member of the Precinct Election Committee.” 

Act on Election to the Bodies of Self-government Regions
(2001)

• Section 30, subsection (1) states, “A voter incapable to mark his ballot papers due to physical incapacity, or reading or writing difficulties, is entitled to enter polling booth accompanied by other voter, other than a member of the Ward Election Commission, for the purpose of marking voter´s ballot papers and depositing them into the ballot box according to the handicapped voter´s instructions.”
• Section 30, subsection (2) states, “Upon request of the voter incapable to put the envelope into a ballot box due to his physical incapacity, another voter, however not a member of the Ward Election Commission, may do so in his presence.”

Act on Elections to Municipalities’ Self-Government Authorities
(1990, last amended 2007)

• Section 32 states, “An elector who is unable to mark the ballot paper personally due to being disabled or due to being unable to read or write, shall be entitled to take another elector to the polling booth designated for marking of ballot papers so that such person can mark the ballot paper on his/her behalf and put it in an envelope. “

Act on European Parliamentary Elections
(2003)

• Section 23, subsection (6) states, “An elector who is unable to mark the ballot paper owing to physical disability, or inability to read or write, shall have the right to take with him to the polling booth another elector, one who is not a member of the polling district committee, for the purpose of marking his ballot paper as he instructs and placing it in the envelope.”
• Section 23, subsection (10) states, “An elector who is unable to palce the envelope into the ballot box may request another elector, one who is not a member of the polling district committee, to do it for him in his presence.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
Law On Elections to the National Council of the Slovak Republic
(2004)

• Section 20, subsection (8) states, “For serious reasons, in particular of health, the polling district commission may allow an elector on request to cast his or her vote outside the polling station and within the polling district for which the polling district commission was established. In such a case, the polling district commission shall send to the elector two of its members together with the portable ballot box, envelopes and ballot papers; these members of the commission shall ensure that secrecy of voting is observed. The elector’s participation in voting shall be registered by the polling district commission in each copy of the electoral register immediately after the two commission members sent with the portable ballot box have returned to the station.”

Act on Election of the President of the Slovak Republic
(1999, last amended 2008)

• Section 3, subsection (3) states, “A municipality may establish a special election precinct in health care facilities, social services facilities, detention facilities and prisons provided that such precinct covers at least 100 qualified electors.”
• Article 21, section (7) states, “A qualified elector who is unable to come to a polling station and who stays, at the time of the poll, in the municipality, where he/she has permanent residence or who has a poll card, shall be entitled to request the Precinct Election Committee for being enabled to cast his/her vote in a mobile ballot box. In such case, the Precinct Election Committee shall send at least two of its members with a mobile ballot box, ballot papers and an envelope to the qualified elector; these members of the Precinct Election Committee shall secure secrecy of the voting.”

Act on Election to the Bodies of Self-government Regions
(2001)

• Section 29, subsection (6) states, “The voter is entitled to ask the Ward Election Commission on serious, especially health grounds, for permission to vote outside the polling station, however, only within the territory of the election ward in the responsibility of the Ward Election Commission. In such case the Ward Election Commission shall send two polling clerks with a portable ballot box, an envelope and ballot papers to the voter. During voting the polling clerks shall proceed in such way as to observe secrecy of the ballot.”

Act on Elections to Municipalities’ Self-Government Authorities
(1990, last amended 2007)

• Section 31, subsection (6) states, “For serious reasons, above all for reasons of health, an elector can request the precinct election committee to be enabled to vote outside the polling station, however only within the ward of the election precinct, for which the precinct election committee was established. In such case, the precinct election committee shall send two of its members with a mobile ballot box, ballot papers and an envelope to the elector. The elector shall vote in a manner maintaining secrecy of the voting.”

Act on European Parliamentary Elections
(2003)

• Section 23, subsection (9) states, “An elector may for serious reasons, in particular of health, request the polling district committee to allow him to vote outside the polling station, but within the polling district whereof which the polling district committee was established. In such a case, the polling district committee shall dispatch to the elector two of its members together with the portable ballot box, envelopes and ballot papers; the dispatched members of the polling district committee shall ensure that secrecy of voting is maintained. “
  

• Constitution - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/europe/SK/Constitution_slovakia.pdf/view
• All electoral laws can be found at - http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/4/topic/6