General Right to
Vote
Electoral Law:
(1994: Election of Members of the People's Council)
• Article 2 states: "All citizens of the Socialist Republic
of Vietnam, irrespective of their ethnicity, sex, social standing, belief,
religion, educational level, occupation, length of residence, who have
reached 18 years of age, are eligible to vote, and who have reached 21
years of age, are eligible to stand for election to the People's Council
in accordance with law, except that they are mentally deficient and those
who are stripped of these rights by law or by the People's Court."
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(1994: Election of Members of the People's Council)
• Article 2 states: "All citizens of the Socialist Republic
of Vietnam…who have reached 18 years of age, are eligible to vote,
and who have reached 21 years of age, are eligible to stand for election
to the People's Council in accordance with law, except that they are mentally
deficient and those who are stripped of these rights by law or by the
People's Court."
Voter Assistance
by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1994: Election of Members of the People's Council)
• Article 41, paragraph (1) states: "…Voters who cannot
write the ballots by themselves, may ask other people to do that for them,
but they will cast the ballots by themselves. The persons who are asked
for help in ballot writing must keep secret the names of the voters whom
they help. If the voters cannot cast the ballots into ballot boxes by
themselves for reasons of disability, they can ask other people to do
so for them."
Off-Site Voting
Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(1994: Election of Members of the People's Council)
• Article 13 states: "…A hospital, sanitarium, maternity
house or a nursing home for handicapped people with fifty voters or above
can set up a separate polling station."
• Article 41, paragraph (2) states: "In case the voters are
so sick, old and weak or handicapped that they cannot personally go to
the polling station, the Election Team may bring the mobile ballot box
to their places of residence so that these voters can cast their ballots."
