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Election Obligations & Standards Database

Summary

Accommodation to vote should be made for voters with special needs, including prisoners who have voting rights.


Obligations

  • Universal Suffrage

Election Parts

  • Voting Operations

Issues

  • Facilitation of Voting

Criteria

  • Voting operations facilitated broad participation

Quotes

  • Voters with special needs, including the disabled, the elderly, students, conscripts, workers (including migrant workers out of the country), foreign service personnel and prisoners who have retained voting rights, should be accommodated.
  • Election laws may contain special provisions to facilitate voting by persons who are physically disabled, those in hospital or in prisons, those who are out of the country or who cannot come to the polling station for other valid reasons.
  • A general, automatic, indiscriminate restriction of the suffrage rights of all people convicted of a crime, regardless of the nature and degree of the crime, is an example of a restriction too broadly applied.
EOS EOS

Election Obligations & Standards Database

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