Ethiopia

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Article 18 states:

Any Ethiopian who is 18 or more years old on the date of registration shall be eligible for registration as an elector…

 

Excerpt from the Proclamation to make the Electoral Law of Ethiopia Conform with the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia No. 11/1995 (1995, last amended 2005)

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Article 7, Subarticle (2) states:

The Vice Chairman of the Board shall:…

• (b) take over the Chairmanship, until such time as another Chairman is designated in accordance with this Proclamation, in case where the Chairman is unable to discharge his duties for any person whatsoever.

 

Article 20 states:

The following shall not be eligible for registration:

• (1) Notoriously insane persons…

 

Article 21, subsection (4) states:

The disabled, other than those specified under Article 20 (1) hereinabove, and the blind may be registered accompanied by their assistants.

 

Article 36 states:

Except for persons who are not registered in accordance with Article 29 hereinabove, subject to cancellation following a complaint, notoriously insane or deceased, no registration shall be deleted from the electoral roll.

 

Article 37, subsection (1) states:

Where electors are convicted rendered insane or deceased courts, hospitals and polling stations, respectively, shall have the duty to forthwith report the incident to Woreda electoral offices.

 

Article 64 states:

…(5) Any elector shall have the right to choose a person who can assist him to mark the ballot paper and put it in the ballot box during the voting process.

(6) Electors who are blind or, otherwise, physically disabled may vote accompanied by assistants of their own choice. 

(7) Illiterate electors shall vote by pressing one of their fingers in the square corresponding to the symbol of the candidature for which they want to vote, after dipping it in the ink made available for this purpose...

 

Excerpts from the Proclamation to make the Electoral Law of Ethiopia Conform with the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia No. 11/1995 (1995, last amended 2005)

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Article 21, subsection 4 states:

The disabled, other than those specified under Article 20 (1) hereinabove, and the blind may be registered accompanied by their assistants.

 

Article 64 states:

…(5) Any elector shall have the right to choose a person who can assist him to mark the ballot paper and put it in the ballot box during the voting process.

(6) Electors who are blind or, otherwise, physically disabled may vote accompanied by assistants of their own choice. 

(7) Illiterate electors shall vote by pressing one of their fingers in the square corresponding to the symbol of the candidature for which they want to vote, after dipping it in the ink made available for this purpose...

 

Excerpts from the Proclamation to make the Electoral Law of Ethiopia Conform with the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia No. 11/1995 (1995, last amended 2005)

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Article 7, subsection 2 states:

The Vice Chairman of the Board shall:…

• (b) take over the Chairmanship, until such time as another Chairman is designated in accordance with this Proclamation, in case where the Chairman is unable to discharge his duties for any person whatsoever.

 

Excerpt from the Proclamation to make the Electoral Law of Ethiopia Conform with the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia No. 11/1995 (1995, last amended 2005)