General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1979, as amended 2007)

• Schedule 3, section 3, subsection (1) states, “Subject to the provisions of this paragraph and to such residence qualifications as may be prescribed in the Electoral Law for inclusion on the electoral role of a particular constituency, any person who has attained the age of eighteen years and who-(a) is a citizen of Zimbabwe...shall be qualified for registration as a voter.”

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Electoral Law
Electoral Act of 2008

• Section 3, subsection (b) states, “Every citizen has the right - to participate in government directly or through freely chosen representatives, and is entitled without distinction on the grounds of race, ethnicity, gender, language, political or religious belief, education, physical appearance or disability...to stand for office and cast a vote freely.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1979, as amended 2007)

• Schedule 3, section 3, subsection (2) states, “The following shall be disqualified for registration as a voter for the periods stated hereunder- (a) any person who is found or declared in accordance with any Act relating to mental health to be mentally disordered or defective as defined in that Act, for so long as he is so mentally disordered or defective; (b) any person who is declared by order of the High Court to be incapable of managing his own affairs, for so long as that order remains in force.”
• Schedule 3 section 1 states that any candidates for electoral office must be eligible to be registered as a voter.

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Electoral Act of 2008

• Section 51, subsection (1a) states, “Every polling station shall be located in a place that is readily accessible to the public, including persons with physical disabilities.”
• Section 60, subsection (1) states, “At the request in person of a voter who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner provided in section fifty-seven, the presiding officer, in the presence of two other electoral officers or employees of the Commission and a police officer on duty at the polling station, shall cause the vote of such voter to be there and then marked on a ballot paper in the manner directed by the voter and the ballot paper to be placed in the ballot box, and if the directions of the voter as to the manner in which the vote is to be marked on the ballot paper are not sufficiently clear to enable the vote to be so marked without further directions from the voter, the presiding officer may cause such questions to be put to the voter as, in his or her opinion, are necessary to elicit such further directions.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
Electoral Act of 2008

• Section 75 [Voting by Post], subsection (1), part (e) states, “The voter shall then dispatch the covering envelope by registered post without delay, or hand it to the constituency elections officer who, when it is so handed to him or her, shall issue a receipt for it...provided that...(iii) at the request in person of a voter who cannot read or write or who is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner provided in this subsection, the competent witness may mark the vote of the voter on the ballot paper in the manner directed by the voter.”

• Constitution - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/ZW/zimbabwe-constitution-of-zimbabwe-2008-1/view
• Electoral Act - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/africa/ZW/zimbawe-electoral-act-2008/view