Sweden

Elections Act (1997, last amended 2005)

Updated: June 2015

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Chapter 7, section 3 states:

…Voters who owing to a disability or the like cannot personally arrange their votes, shall upon request be given assistance with this by the voting clerks to the extent that is necessary.

 

Chapter 7, section 4 states:

Voters who owing to illness, disability or old age cannot personally make their way to a vote reception point may deliver their ballot papers there by messenger…

 

Chapter 7, section 5 states:

The following persons may be a messenger:

(1) a voter’s spouse or cohabitee and the voter’s, spouse’s or cohabitee’s children, grandchildren, parents or siblings,

(2) those who professionally or in a similar way provide the voter with care or who otherwise assist the voter in personal affairs,

(3) those who have been specially appointed by the municipality to be a messenger,

(4) rural postmen employed by Posten AB…A messenger shall have attained the age of 18.

 

Chapter 7, section 6 states:

For general elections to the Riksdag and to municipal and county council assemblies and elections to the European Parliament, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 24 days prior to the election day. For other elections, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 10 days prior to the election day…

 

Chapter 9, section 4 states:

If a polling station is not available for voters with disabilities, the voting clerks can receive their vote envelopes outside the polling station, provided this can be done in a secure manner.

 

Excerpts from the Elections Act (1997, last amended 2005)

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Chapter 7, section 3 states:

…Voters who owing to a disability or the like cannot personally arrange their votes, shall upon request be given assistance with this by the voting clerks to the extent that is necessary.

 

Chapter 7, section 4 states:

Voters who owing to illness, disability or old age cannot personally make their way to a vote reception point may deliver their ballot papers there by messenger…

 

Chapter 7, section 5 states:

The following persons may be a messenger:

(1) a voter’s spouse or cohabitee and the voter’s, spouse’s or cohabitee’s children, grandchildren, parents or siblings,

(2) those who professionally or in a similar way provide the voter with care or who otherwise assist the voter in personal affairs,

(3) those who have been specially appointed by the municipality to be a messenger,

(4) rural postmen employed by Posten AB…A messenger shall have attained the age of 18.

 

Chapter 7, section 6 states:

For general elections to the Riksdag and to municipal and county council assemblies and elections to the European Parliament, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 24 days prior to the election day. For other elections, a vote by messenger may be arranged no earlier than 10 days prior to the election day…

 

Chapter 9, section 4 states:

If a polling station is not available for voters with disabilities, the voting clerks can receive their vote envelopes outside the polling station, provided this can be done in a secure manner.

 

Excerpts from the Elections Act (1997, last amended 2005)