General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(December 1990)
Article 45, section (1) states, "All citizens of the Republic who
have reached the age of eighteen years have universal and equal suffrage. This
right is to be exercised at direct elections by secret ballot."
Voter Assistance By Other
Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1999)
Article 83, paragraph (1) states, "A voter who because of some physical
disability or illiteracy would not be able to vote on his/her own, may come
to the polling station accompanied by another person who is literate and who
will following such person's authorization and instructions circle the ordinal
number in front of the name of the list or in front of the name of the candidate
for whom the voter is voting."
Article 44, paragraph 2 states "A voter who is unable to come to
the polling station shall inform the electoral committee accordingly. The president
of the electoral committee shall designate at least two members of the electoral
committee or their deputies to visit the voter's location and make it possible
for him/her to vote, taking into account the secrecy of voting."
Article 44, paragraph 3 states, "In the case of the voting of a
person with physical disability, an illiterate person or any voting carried
out outside the polling station upon preliminary information received from the
voter, the president of the electoral committee shall indicate the names of
such persons in the minutes of the work of the electoral committee."
Poll Worker Manuals:
(1997: Voting and Counting Procedures)
7.7 states "A Disabled or Illiterate Voter," who is unable
to vote because of blindness, physical disability or because of illiteracy,
may be accompanied to the Polling Station with some other literate person who
shall, upon the voter's authorization and instructions, mark the ballot papers
for the voter. The name of the voter who needed assistance in voting must be
entered into the Minutes."
Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(1999)
Article 44, paragraph 2 states "A voter who is unable to come to
the polling station shall inform the electoral committee accordingly. The president
of the electoral committee shall designate at least two members of the electoral
committee or their deputies to visit the voter's location and make it possible
for him/her to vote, taking into account the secrecy of voting."
Poll Worker Manuals:
(1997: Voting and Counting Procedures)
7.8 states "Mobile Voting will be available for those who are unable
to vote at the Polling Station because the voter is in the hospital, sick at
home, or is immobile, but only if the voter is accessible to the Polling Station
and if the voter has given sufficient prior notice to the Polling Station Committee
Chairman. The Chairman shall send two Members or Deputy Members to the place
where the voter is 1located and must provide the opportunity for the voter to
mark the ballot papers in secrecy. The voter must fold each of the five ballot
papers in half and place each ballot paper inside a separate envelope which
the voter will seal closed in front of the two Committee Members. The name of
the election must be written on the front of the envelope. When the Committee
Members return to the Polling Station they shall insert each of the five envelopes
into the appropriate ballot box. The name of the person who needed to vote in
this manner must be entered in the Minutes."