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."