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Act XXXVI of 2013 on Electoral Procedure (2013)

Updated: June 2015

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Chapter I, section 2, subsection 1 states:

The following principles shall prevail in the application of the rules of electoral procedure:…

  • (d) support for voters with a disability in exercising their right to vote…

 

Chapter VI, section 102, part 2 states:

Citizens who turn eighteen years of age on the day of voting at the latest shall be listed in the polling district electoral register from the day after the day the elections are called…

 

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Chapter I, section 3, subsection (1) states:

'Voter with a disability' shall mean a voter who has limited or no sensorial abilities (especially vision and hearing) or limited or no musculoskeletal abilities or mental capacity, or who has considerably limited communication abilities, and this places him or her at a lasting disadvantage when it comes to actively participating in public life…

 

Chapter I, section 13/A states:

(1) Courts shall decide on exclusion from suffrage in decisions ordering placement under conservatorship limiting competency...

(2) Courts shall exclude persons of legal adult age from suffrage whose capacity for reasoning necessary for exercising suffrage

  • (a) is greatly reduced permanently or recurrently owing to their mental state, unsound mind or pathological addiction; or
  • (b) is permanently and completely lost owing to their mental state or unsound mind.

 

Chapter III, section 62, subsection (5) states:

Deputy Presidents shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the President if the President is unable to do so or the position of the President is vacant.

 

Chapter III, section 65 states:

… (4) The President of the National Election Office shall dismiss the Deputy President of the National Election Office if he or she is unable to discharge his or her duties for reasons beyond his or her control for more than ninety days.

(5) The President of the National Election Office may dismiss Deputy Presidents of the National Election Office.

(6) The President of the National Election Office shall remove from office the Deputy President of the National Election Office if he or she fails to discharge his or her duties for reasons within his or her control for more than ninety days or intentionally states untrue data or facts of importance in a financial disclosure statement.

(7) The failure of a Deputy President of the National Election Office to meet the requirements for appointment shall be determined by the President of the National Election Office.

 

Chapter V, section 85, subsection (1) states:

[Voters] may request that…b) their request for assistance in voting…be listed in the central electoral register.

 

Chapter VI, section 102, subsection (3) states:

Voters who requested an accessible polling station…if the polling station assigned to them based on their address is not accessible – shall be moved by the local election office to the register of a polling district in the same settlement and constituency that has an accessible polling station.

 

Chapter XI, section 179, subsection (2) states:

If the voter cannot write, the register shall be signed by two members of the polling station commission and this fact shall be noted in the register.

 

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Chapter I, section 2.1 states:

The following principles shall prevail in the application of the rules of electoral procedure…

  • (d) support for voters with a disability in exercising their right to vote…

 

Chapter I, section 3.1 states:

'Voter with a disability' shall mean a voter who has limited or no sensorial abilities (especially vision and hearing) or limited or no musculoskeletal abilities or mental capacity, or who has considerably limited communication abilities, and this places him or her at a lasting disadvantage when it comes to actively participating in public life…

 

Chapter V, section 85, subsection 1 states:

[Voters] may request that…b) their request for assistance in voting…

 

Chapter V, section 88 states:

Voters with a disability may request the following types of assistance in exercising their right to vote:

  • (a) the sending of a notification in Braille transcription;
  • (b) the sending of simplified information material;
  • (c) use of a Braille voting template at the polling station or during mobile voting;
  • (d) use of an accessible polling station.

 

Chapter VI, section 102, subsection (3) states:

Voters who requested an accessible polling station…if the polling station assigned to them based on their address is not accessible – shall be moved by the local election office to the register of a polling district in the same settlement and constituency that has an accessible polling station.

 

Chapter VI, section 103, subsection 1 states:

Requests for mobile voting may be submitted by voters listed in the polling district electoral register who are limited as to their movement due to their health condition, disability...

 

Chapter IX, section 166 states:

At least one polling station in each constituency of each settlement shall provide disabled access.

 

Chapter XI, section 179, subsection (2) states:

If the voter cannot write, the register shall be signed by two members of the polling station commission and this fact shall be noted in the register.

 

Chapter XI, section 181 states:

(1) Voters who cannot read or are prevented from voting by a physical handicap or any other cause may use the assistance of a person of their choice – or, for lack of such assistants, the joint assistance of two members of the polling station commission.

(2) In polling districts pursuant to Section 167 (5), visually impaired voters may use Braille voting templates to facilitate voting. The polling station commission shall place the voter's ballot paper in the template before handing it over to the voter. After voting, the voter shall remove the ballot paper from the template, place it in the ballot box and hand the voting template back to the polling station commission.

 

Chapter XV, section 323, subsection 2 states:

Minority polling stations shall be laid out so that they are accessible to voters with a disability...

 

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Chapter III, section 62, subsection (5) states:

Deputy Presidents shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the President if the President is unable to do so or the position of the President is vacant.

 

Chapter III, section 65 states:

… (4) The President of the National Election Office shall dismiss the Deputy President of the National Election Office if he or she is unable to discharge his or her duties for reasons beyond his or her control for more than ninety days.

(5) The President of the National Election Office may dismiss Deputy Presidents of the National Election Office.

(6) The President of the National Election Office shall remove from office the Deputy President of the National Election Office if he or she fails to discharge his or her duties for reasons within his or her control for more than ninety days or intentionally states untrue data or facts of importance in a financial disclosure statement.

(7) The failure of a Deputy President of the National Election Office to meet the requirements for appointment shall be determined by the President of the National Election Office.

 

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