Laos

Law on the Election of Members of the National Assembly (2001)

Updated: June 2015

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Article 3 states:

All Lao citizens, irrespective of their sex, ethnic groups, religions, social status, place of residence, and profession, who are from18 years of age, have the right to vote; any one from 21 years of age has the right to be elected as a National Assembly member.

 

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Article 4 states: 

People who have no right to vote, nor to be elected are the following:

  • (1) The insane, and the mad…

 

Article 29 states: 

…(6) For illiterate voters who can not read, the responsible committee for election units shall nominate someone to assist them and select the National Assembly of the Nominee selected, then let them deposit the ballot by themselves. In case when such person cannot deposit the ballot by himself, someone from the election unit shall help them to do so in front of them;

(7) If voters are sick, disabled, or old and can not come to the election site, a mobile team shall go and collect their ballot from those people at their home;…

 

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Article 29 states: 

…(6) For illiterate voters who can not read, the responsible committee for election units shall nominate someone to assist them and select the National Assembly of the Nominee selected, then let them deposit the ballot by themselves. In case when such person cannot deposit the ballot by himself, someone from the election unit shall help them to do so in front of them; 

(7) If voters are sick, disabled, or old and can not come to the election site, a mobile team shall go and collect their ballot from those people at their home;…

 

Excerpt from the Law on the Election of Members of the National Assembly (2001) 

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Article 4 states:

People who have no right to vote, nor to be elected are the following:

(1) The insane, and the mad…

 

Excerpt from the Law on the Election of Members of the National Assembly (2001)