EAIElectoral Access Index

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 124 addresses only polling place location and facility requirements (prohibition of religious/military/hospital buildings, procedures for exceptional use of private buildings). It contains no provisions establishing or codifying the independence, appointment, composition, or term structures of the election administration body (the Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante). The criterion requires statutory codification of structural independence; this section does not provide it.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 2 establishes that voting is a constitutional right and that electoral registration is mandatory for citizens meeting conditions 'fixées par la présente Loi organique' (fixed by the present organic law). The section explicitly delegates the substantive conditions—including age and residency requirements—to the organic law itself, not to the constitution. The criterion requires these requirements to be set in the constitution; this section confirms they are instead set by statute.

The statute codifies disqualification criteria (fraud, obstruction of voting, electoral corruption/violence) and a fixed duration (15 years from final conviction). However, the section provides no defined statutory restoration procedure or mechanism for reinstatement after the 15-year period expires, leaving restoration to administrative discretion or general legal principle rather than explicit statutory pathway.

The statute mentions restoration of voting rights when a person 'recovers electoral capacity that was removed by a court decision,' but provides no statutory deadlines, no automatic restoration mechanism, and no defined procedure or cure pathway for asserting restoration eligibility. The section is purely descriptive of what the local commission must do if a person has already recovered capacity, leaving the actual restoration process to judicial discretion and administrative judgment rather than statutory codification.

The section explicitly sets the voter ID requirement in statutory text (Loi organique), specifying that voters must present a national identity card and voter card upon entering the polling place. The requirement is grounded directly in the statute, not delegated to regulation or administrative discretion.

The statute exhaustively enumerates the acceptable ID forms for this specific voting population (government officials, magistrates, law enforcement, military, and election commission members): mission order or equivalent document, voter card, and national identity card. The acceptable forms are specified in the statute itself with no discretion left to administrators regarding which documents qualify.

No matching sections in corpus.

Article 50 provides a statutory alternative identification procedure (national ID card + attestation) for voters who arrive at the polls without an electoral card, which addresses the core question. However, the statute does not define what happens if a voter cannot produce either the national ID or the attestation at the polling place itself—i.e., no provisional ballot, affidavit, or other at-polls cure mechanism is specified. The remedy described in Articles 49–50 is pre-election (obtaining a duplicate or receipt in advance), not an on-the-day cure.

No matching sections in corpus.

Article 37 establishes a specific, statutorily-defined registration deadline—the provisional electoral list is finalized on February 28 of each year. This date is fixed in the organic law itself, not delegated to administrative discretion or regulation, and is tied to an election calendar reference point (annually). The criterion asks whether the cutoff is defined by statute; this section does exactly that.

“La liste arrêtée provisoirement le 28 février de chaque année”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 41 addresses the administrative mechanics of list revision and deduplication when voters change residence, but does not enumerate registration methods. The statute prescribes automatic transfer during annual list revision but does not exhaustively specify what registration methods (in-person, mail, online, motor-voter, automatic, same-day) are available to voters. The procedure is administrative and assumes prior registration without detailing how initial or alternative registration can occur.

Article 38 provides a cure procedure for voters omitted due to material error (20-day window to request correction, 7-day response deadline, and judicial review path). However, this procedure applies specifically to omissions from a provisional electoral list, not to registrations rejected as incomplete. The statute defines cure for a narrow circumstance (material omission) rather than the broader criterion of incomplete registration applications. No procedure is specified for voters whose registration applications are rejected for being incomplete or lacking required information.

The statute explicitly codifies the right to challenge a rejected registration in clear, enumerated terms: a citizen whose registration claim is rejected may submit a challenge within 15 days to the tribunal of first instance. The procedure is further detailed with specific timelines (10 days for the tribunal president to rule, 7 days for notification), meeting the statutory-grounding and enumeration requirements.

Article 34 of this organic law (Loi organique 2018-008) sets forth the specific grounds for voter roll removal in statutory form: death, loss of electoral capacity via final court judgment, change of address/Fokontany, and erroneous inscription. These criteria are exhaustively enumerated in the statute itself, not delegated to regulation. The organic law status provides constitutional-level grounding, satisfying the highest ordinal level.

Article 37 establishes a statutory notice requirement: the provisional electoral list is posted (avis de dépôt) at the Fokontany level and transmitted to the local census commission for verification by voters themselves. This provides notice and an opportunity to challenge one's status. However, the statute does not explicitly enumerate a defined cure procedure (e.g., what specific actions a voter must take, within what timeframe, to remedy an erroneous removal), nor does it clearly specify an appeal or review path if a voter's objection is rejected. The procedure is partially procedurally clear but incomplete.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 21 addresses voter verification procedures and inscription challenges but contains no provisions regarding data security, encryption requirements, breach notification protocols, or access logs for the voter registry. The section is exclusively procedural regarding voter verification deadlines and attestations, not data protection or security regime.

No matching sections in corpus.

Article 158 grants voters with disabilities the statutory right to be assisted by a person of their choice, satisfying the core eligibility rule. However, the statute does not enumerate rules governing who may or may not assist (e.g., restrictions on election officials, family members, partisan agents, or other qualifications), leaving the identity and conduct of assistants to administrative discretion or judicial interpretation. The right exists and is codified, but the procedural guardrails are absent.

Article 158 provides statutory authorization for voter assistance and permits a voter to choose their assistant, which addresses basic procedural grounding. However, the statute is silent on critical safeguards: it does not enumerate protections for ballot secrecy during the assistance process, does not specify what procedures the assistant must follow, does not define how to prevent coercion or undue influence, and does not establish a cure or appeal mechanism if assistance is denied or mishandled. The criterion requires both codification AND defined procedures protecting ballot secrecy; this section satisfies only the first element partially.

Article 147 sets polling-place opening and closing hours by explicit statutory language: opening at 6 AM and closing at 5 PM. The hours are fixed in statute and not delegated to local administrative discretion, satisfying the procedural-clarity requirement for this criterion.

“Le scrutin est ouvert à six (6) heures et clos à dix-sept (17) heures.”

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: This section explicitly prohibits mail-in voting ('ni par correspondance'), rendering the criterion of procedural codification for mail-in voting inapplicable. The statute provides no mail-in voting procedure to evaluate because mail-in voting is not permitted.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 195–196 address electoral observer credentials, badges, attestations, and procedural requirements for observers at polling stations, not absentee voting. There is no statutory framework presented here governing absentee voting eligibility, application procedures, ballot return methods, or treatment of absentee ballots. The section is procedurally clear for observer accreditation but entirely outside the scope of absentee voting.

No matching sections in corpus.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 169 describes ballot-counting and tabulation procedures at polling stations (opening urns, counting ballots, recording votes) but contains no reference to ballot drop-boxes, their placement, security, or chain-of-custody procedures. The section addresses post-voting ballot handling at a central location, not remote deposit mechanisms. Since the statute text does not address drop-box procedures at all, the criterion cannot be satisfied.

No section in the FTS-surfaced candidates satisfies this criterion. Best signal: Article 235 addresses criminal penalties and procedural exceptions for violations of the organic law; it contains no provision regarding provisional ballots, their right to cast them, or any adjudication procedure. The section is entirely penal in nature and does not relate to voting methods or ballot procedures.