Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 36 states:
Lao citizens aged eighteen years and above have the right to vote and those aged twenty years and above have the right to be elected, except insane persons, persons with mental disorders and persons whose rights to vote and to be elected have been revoked by a court.
Article 4 states:
People who have no right to vote, nor to be elected are the following:
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;…