Laos

Population Statistics

6,911,544

Total Population

1,036,732

Population with a disability

according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate

Election Dates

25 September 2009

Ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities


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

Updated: June 2015

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)