Issue
Facilitation of Voting
Election Parts
Criteria
- Polls opened on time and did not close early. People in line to vote at poll closing were able to cast their ballot
- Sufficient resources, human and material, were available at each polling station
- Polling places were located in public places that were easy to access
- There were an adequate number of polling places to accommodate voters
- Voting operations facilitated broad participation
Summaries
- Methods to facilitate voting may include making special provision for members of the military to vote.
- Polling sites must be accessible.
- Elections must be held by universal suffrage.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include early voting.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include voting abroad.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including workers (and migrant workers out of country).
- Limits placed on the right to vote must be based on objective and reasonable criteria.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including persons with disabilities.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including conscripts.
- Every citizen has the right to vote.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including the illiterate.
- Various methods may be employed to facilitate voting for those unable to reach a polling station.
- Limits on the right to vote may be based on criminal conviction.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include establishing polling sites in prisons.
- Limits on the right to vote may be based on a minimum age.
- All persons waiting in line at the close of polls should be permitted to vote.
- Special voting procedures must provide the necessary security and transparency to the voting process.
- Cases of accommodation of voters with special needs should be well defined.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including students.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include postal voting.
- Sufficient voting materials should be available at each polling site.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including eligible voters currently out of the country.
- Universal suffrage requires that the broadest reasonable pool of voters is guaranteed participatory rights.
- There should be enough polling places to accommodate the number of voters.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including eligible voters in hospitals.
- Polling stations should be located in public places.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include electronic voting.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including the elderly.
- Limits on the right to vote may be based on citizenship.
- Electoral processes involving technologies should meet the same requirements of universality, equality, integrity, transparency, and accountability as traditional voting.
- Limits on the right to vote may be based on residency.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including foreign-service personnel.
- The polling station and its staff should be of sufficient size to handle the expected number of voters.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include establishing polling sites in hospitals.
- Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including prisoners who have voting rights.
- Late opening or early closing of polls undermines the right to vote.
- Limitations on the voting rights of convicted criminals should be proportionate to the offense and the sentence.
- Provisions on the rights of active duty military personnel to vote should be carefully written to avoid abuse and potential disenfranchisement of voters.
- E-voting systems should facilitate voting by persons with disabilities.
- Limits on the right to vote may be based on a requirement for identification.
- Methods to facilitate voting may include mobile voting.