General Right to Vote
Constitution

• Section 45 states, “The House of Deputies shall be composed of representatives directly elected by the people of the provinces...”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
(1983, last modified 2002)

• Article 3 states, "Excluded from the polling register are: (a) persons who have been declared insane by law and those who, although they have not been so declared, are confined in state institutions..."

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law
Electoral Code of 1983
(1983, last modified 2002)

• Article 3 states, "Excluded from the polling register are...(b) deaf-mutes who cannot make themselves understood in writing..."

Compulsory Vote Excusal
Electoral Law
(1983, last amended 2002)

• Article 12 states, "Every elector has a duty to vote in the national election taking place in his district. Exempt from this obligation are...(d) persons who are ill or prevented by sufficiently proved force majeure, from attending the act. These grounds must be certified, in the first place by national health service doctors; in their absence, by official, provincial or municipal doctors, an din their absence, by private doctors..."

• Constitution - http://www.argentina.gov.ar/argentina/portal/documentos/constitucion_ingles.pdf
• Electoral Code - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Arg/argcode83.html
• 2002 Reforms to Electoral Law - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Arg/ref2002.html