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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Registration must not be restricted among potential voters based on homelessness.


Obligations

  • Freedom from Discrimination and Equality Before the Law

Election Parts

  • Voting Operations

Issues

  • The Right to Vote, and Voting Operations

Criteria

  • The right to vote was guaranteed by law and was subject only to reasonable and objective restrictions

Quotes

  • If residence requirements apply to registration, they must be reasonable, and should not be imposed in such a way as to exclude the homeless from the right to vote.
  • …residence is a common requirement for eligibility to vote in a constituency based electoral system. That requirement may however operate in a discriminatory way in respect of refugees...nomadic peoples, or internally displaced persons.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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