General Right to Vote
Electoral Law:
(1993)
• Article 3 states: "These are the principles of voting: (a) Voting is universal, direct, free, obligatory and secret…."
Constitution:
(1994)
• Article 6, section (1) states: "Every human has legal capacity in accordance with the laws. Guaranteed rights and freedoms are enjoyed by everyone without discrimination due to race, sex, language, religion, political or other affiliations, origin, socio-economic status or other."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(source: IPU)
• Disqualification from voting: insanity

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law:
(1993)
• Article 46 states: "…Out of five distinguished delegates [from a regional electoral committee], at least three should know how to read and write…"
• Article 72 states: "Persons who may not be registered…(d) deaf-mutes who cannot make themselves understood adequately."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1993)
• Article 162, section (i) states: "The blind and physically disabled voters from an electoral district will be accompanied by the President of a voter table.
Poll Worker Manuals:
Instruction Manual for Poll Workers: Produced by the national Election Court (1993).
• Those people with visual and physical disabilities enter the polling station accompanied by the president of the polling place. In cases where the voter is visually impaired, the president may guide the voter's fingers in order to help the voter determine where each candidate is located on the ballot. P 25

Promotes Access
Electoral Law:
(1993)
• Article 162, section (i) states: In the case of the blind, Braille will be available for voting assistance and insurance of secrecy of a vote."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Instruction Manual for Poll Workers: Produced by the national Election Court (1993).
• Preference in line given to citizens over 70 years of age, pregnant women, the visually impaired, people with physical disabilities p. 24