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Article 2 states:

All citizens of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, irrespective of their ethnicity, sex, social standing, belief, religion, educational level, occupation, length of residence, who have attained the age of full eighteen years and over shall have the right to vote and who have attained the age of full twenty one years and over shall have the right to stand for the National Assembly election in accordance with the provisions of law.

 

Article 23 states:

(1) The persons who are deprived of the voting right under legally effective judgments or decisions of the Court, who are serving prison terms, are temporarily detained or are insane shall not have their names registered in the lists of voters.

(2) If twenty four hours before the voting, the persons defined in Clause 1 of this Article have their voting right restored, are set free or certified by the competent agency that they are no longer insane, they shall have their names added to the voters lists and be given the voters cards.

(3) If persons who have already had their names in the voters' lists, are, by the time of voting, deprived of their voting right by the Court, having to serve prison terms, temporarily detained or are insane, the commune/ward/township People’s Committee shall cross out their names from the voters lists and withdraw their voters cards.

 

Article 29 states:

The following persons shall not be entitled to stand for the National Assembly election:...

• (5) The persons who are serving administrative sanctions through forced education at the commune, ward or township, at the educational establishments and medical treatment establishments or who are put on administrative probation. If persons who have registered their names in the list of National Assembly candidates are, by the time the election starts, being prosecuted for penal liability, arrested in the acts of committing crimes or insane, the Election Council shall cross out their names from the lists of candidates for the National Assembly election.

 

Excerpts from the Law on the Election of the Deputies to the National Assembly (1997, last amended 2010)

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Article 12 states:

A hospital, maternity house, sanitarium or nursing home for handicapped people or the elderly with fifty or more voters may set up its own electorate.

 

Article 59 states:

Any voter who is unable to write his/her ballot may ask another person to do that for him/her but must cast the ballot by himself/herself; the person who helps in writing the ballot must keep secret the voter’s ballot; if, due to his/her disability, the voter is unable to cast ballot by himself/herself, he/she can ask another person to cast the ballot into the ballot box. In cases where a voter is ill, old or disabled, being unable to go to the polling station, the Election Team shall bring an auxiliary ballot box and the ballot to his/her residence so that he/she can receive the ballot and cast it.

 

Excerpts from the Law on the Election of the Deputies to the National Assembly (1997, last amended 2010)