EAIElectoral Access Index

§ 2 of the Election Commissions Law establishes each election commission as an independent local-government institution with a mandate fixed to the council's term, its members elected by the council (§ 5); the Central Election Commission's composition — nine members, eight elected by the Saeima and one by the Supreme Court — is set in the Central Election Commission Law.

“an independent local government institution for the whole term of”

Article 8 of the Satversme sets the voting age in the constitution — all citizens of Latvia who have attained eighteen years of age on election day are entitled to vote; the 90-day residency rule for municipal elections is set by statute (§ 5 Local Govt).

“who on election day have attained eighteen years”

§ 5 of the Saeima Election Law enumerates the disqualification grounds (trusteeship, serving a custodial sentence, conviction of an intentional offence, mental incapacity) in statute, with restoration built in — the bar lifts when the person is exonerated or the criminal record is extinguished or set aside. Statutory criteria with statutory restoration.

“except for the persons who have been exonerated or whose criminal record has been extinguished or set aside”

Restoration is codified — under § 5 of the Saeima Election Law a conviction-based disqualification lifts automatically once the person is exonerated or the criminal record is extinguished or set aside; no separate application is needed because restoration is automatic.

“except for the persons who have been exonerated or whose criminal record has been extinguished or set aside”

§ 20 of the Saeima Election Law requires a voter to present a personal identification document valid in the Republic of Latvia — the ID requirement is set in statute, not administrative regulation.

“A voter shall present a personal identification document valid in the Republic of Latvia”

§ 20 requires a valid personal identification document, defined by cross-reference to Latvia's identity-documents law (passport or eID card) rather than enumerated exhaustively in the election act itself.

“A voter shall present a personal identification document valid in the Republic of Latvia”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced constitutional education and candidate-list provisions; Latvia's election acts codify no free state-issued ID — identity documents are governed by the separate documents law, with fees set there.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced signature-collection provisions; Latvia codifies no ID-rejection appeal procedure — there is no provisional ballot, so a voter without a valid identification document cannot vote.

Latvia registers voters automatically in the continuously-maintained electoral register (built from the Register of Natural Persons), so there is no application-based registration cutoff; § 45 of the Saeima Election Law shows the postal-voting registration window is statutorily fixed (70 days to three weeks before election day).

Latvia's single registration method is automatic inclusion in the electoral register (Register of Natural Persons), so there are no application-based methods to enumerate; the surfaced sections show the statutory voting channels rather than a registration-methods catalogue.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced candidate-list and initiative-group registration provisions; Latvia registers voters automatically in the electoral register, so there is no incomplete-voter-registration cure procedure.

Latvia codifies a general right to challenge election-commission registration decisions — § 22¹ of the Local Government Council Election Law allows a commission registration decision to be contested to the Central Election Commission and appealed to court; the surfaced provisions concern candidate-list registration, with voter-roll corrections handled by the electoral-register administrator.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced vote-counting provisions; the criteria for maintaining the voter roll sit in Latvia's separate Electoral Register Law, outside this election-act corpus.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: No notice-and-cure-before-removal provision is codified in the ingested election acts; voter-roll maintenance is governed by the separate Electoral Register Law.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: FTS surfaced candidate-data-processing and signature-collection provisions; the data-security regime for the electoral register sits in Latvia's separate Electoral Register Law and the general data-protection law, outside this corpus.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 25 of the Saeima Election Law (and § 33 Local Govt, § 16 Referendum, § 25 EP) codifies assisted voting — a voter who cannot mark the ballot or sign due to physical disability may be assisted by a family member or other trusted person of their choosing.

“marks on the ballot paper shall be made or the list”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

§ 25 of the Local Government Council Election Law sets polling hours by statute — 7.00 to 20.00 on election day — as do § 15 of the Referendum Law and the parallel Saeima/EP provisions; hours are not left to local administrative discretion.

“On the election day the elections shall take place from 7.00 in the morning till 8.00 in the evening.”

Latvia codifies postal voting for voters abroad — § 45 of the Saeima Election Law sets the full procedure: application to a diplomatic/consular mission, a statutory application window (70 days to three weeks before election day), and return via a registration envelope with a signed in-person statement.

“A voter who wishes to vote by post shall submit a submission for postal voting to the relevant diplomatic or consular mission of the Republic of Latvia”

§ 28 of the EP Election Law (and § 24 Saeima, § 32 Local Govt) codifies voting at the voter's location — Latvia's absentee framework — with enumerated eligibility (ill voters and their carers, hospital patients, detainees), a written-submission procedure and a separate sealed ballot box.

“polling station commission shall organise voting at the location of the voter, ensuring secrecy”

§ 31 of the EP Election Law (and § 26 Local Govt) codifies advance (early) voting — the days and opening hours are fixed in statute, and § 48¹ of the Saeima Election Law adds the 'casting a vote for depositing' early-voting channel with statutory hours.

“If the voter is unable to vote on the election day, he or she may cast the vote in advance at any polling station.”

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.

No matching sections in corpus (FTS returned 0 candidates) — concept not codified in this jurisdiction's election statute.