General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1991, last amended 2004)

• Article 43 states: "The right to vote shall be universal and equal. Each citizen who has attained the age of eighteen years has the right to vote and be elected.”

Electoral Law
(1992, last amended 2000)

• Article 7 states, “Every citizen of the Republic of Slovenia who has reached the age of 18 by the Election Day and has not been declared legally incompetent shall have the right to vote and to be elected as a deputy.”

Election of Members of the European Parliament from the Republic of Slovenia Act
(2002, last amended 2004)

• Section 10, paragraph 1 states, “A female or male citizen of the Republic of Slovenia who has the right to vote and be elected a deputy of the National Assembly, shall have the right to vote and to be elected a MEP”

Law on Local Elections
(1993, as amended 1995)

• Article 5 states, “All citizens who on the polling day have reached 18 years of age and have not been deprived of business capacity shall have the right to vote for and be elected as members of municipal councils.”

Act Concerning the Election of the President of the Republic
(1992)

• Article 2 states, “The right to vote and be elected President of the Republic of Slovenia is a right of a citizen of Slovenia, who at the day of voting is the age of eighteen years and is not incapacitated.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
National Assembly Elections Act
(1992, last amended 2000)

• Article 7 states, “Every citizen of the Republic of Slovenia...[who] has not been declared legally incompetent shall have the right to vote and be elected as a deputy.”

Law on Local Elections
(1993, as amended 1995)

• Article 5 states, “All citizens...[who] have not been deprived of business capacity shall have the right to vote for and be elected as members of municipal councils.”

Act Concerning the Election of the President of the Republic
(1992)

• Article 2 states, “The right to vote and be elected President of the Republic of Slovenia is a right of a citizen of Slovenia, who...is not incapacitated.”

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Constitution
(1991, last amended 2004)

• Article 52 discusses the “Rights of Disabled Persons.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
National Assembly Elections Act
(1992, last amended 2004)

• Article 79 states, “If a voter, due to a physical disability or illiteracy, is not able to vote in the manner determined by this Act, he shall have the right to be accompanied by a person who shall help him to cast his vote or deliver the ballot paper. The decision on this shall be made by the electoral committee and entered in the records.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
National Assembly Elections Act
(1992, last amended 2000)

• Article 81, paragraph 3 states, “People in care in retirement homes who do not have permanent residence there, and voters who are hospitalized may also vote by post, provided they have notified the district electoral commission or the constituency electoral commission not later than seven days prior to Election Day.”
• Article 83 states, “Voters, who, for reason of illness, cannot go in person to the polling station where they are enrolled in the electoral register, may vote in their homes before an electoral committee. They must notify the district electoral commission about this not later than three days prior to Election Day.”

• Constitution - http://www.us-rs.si/media/full.text.of.the.constitution.pdf
• National Assembly Elections Law - http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/3/topic/6
• Election of Members of the European Parliament from the Republic of Slovenia Act - http://www.lexadin.nl/wlg/legis/nofr/eur/lxweslv.htm (first link under ‘Electoral law‘)
  **Article 4 states that “The elections shall be conducted and implemented by electoral bodies appointed purusant to the National Assembly Elections Act.“
• Law on Local Elections -http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/UNTC/UNPAN015733.pdf
  **Article 4 states that "The provisions of the law on elections to the National Assembly shall apply mutatis mutandis to questions not specifically governed by this law.“
• Act Concerning the Election of the President of the Republic - http://www.dvk.gov.si/PREDSEDNIK2007/ZVPR.html