General Right to Vote
Electoral Law:
(28 May 1993: On Elections to the Sejm)
• Article 1, section 1 states: "The election of deputies to the Sejm of the Republic of Poland shall be universal, direct, equal and proportional and shall be held by secret ballot."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1997)
• Article 62, section (2) states: "Persons who, by a final judgment of a court, have been subjected to legal incapacitation or deprived of public or electoral rights, shall have no right to participate in a referendum nor a right to vote."
Electoral Law:
(28 May 1993: On Elections to the Sejm)
• Article 13 states: "The following persons shall not have the right to vote…(3) those entirely or partially deprived of legal capacity by a final ruling of a court by reason of mental illness or mental retardation."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(28 May 1993: On Elections to the Sejm)
• Article 40 states: "A handicapped voter may, at his request, be assisted in voting by another person who shall not be a poll observer."

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(28 May 1993: On Elections to the Sejm)
• Article 49.1 states: "Polling wards are established in hospitals and welfare establishments if those shall contain at least 50 voters on Election Day."
• Article 49.2 states" "Polling wards are established for voters living in penitentiaries and houses of detention as well as in outside branches of those institutions. Failure to establish such wards is justifiable only in a warranted case upon the recommendation of the director of the penitentiary or house of detention."
Poll Worker Manuals:
The Electoral Law in Poland: A Few Facts (1993)
• In September 19, 1993 election, there were 22,190 polling districts of which 937 were in hospital and nursing homes, and 169 were in prisons and custodies." P 11