Summary
Methods to facilitate voting may include mobile voting.
Obligations
Criteria
Quotes
- [M]obile ballot boxes should only be allowed under strict conditions, avoiding all risks of fraud.
- Many countries provide mobile boxes at the request of voters who may be elderly, ill, or otherwise unable to visit a polling station. Usually, the mobile boxes are taken on their rounds by at least two polling officials, ideally representing different political interests where applicable. Applying all polling-station controls to mobile ballot boxes is not possible. Voters using mobile ballot boxes may also not have all the privacy afforded by a polling booth.
- Mobile voting... may be available to a single individual, such as a person who is abroad on business, or for an entire community, such as persons who are displaced due to the outbreak of war... It may be available to a single voter homebound due to physical incapacity, or to an entire community, such as a hospital or institution.
- The election law often regulates mobile voting in order to allow the disabled, ill or elderly citizens to exercise their suffrage.
- Public buildings such as schools should be given priority as polling stations. If necessary, mobile units should be used.