General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1980, last reformed 2005)

• Article 1 states, “People are free and equal in all their rights and digntiies.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1980, last reformed 2005)

• Article 16 states, “The right of suffrage is suspended...1. For interdiction in the case of dementia.”

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law
Constitution Act on Popular Votes and Scutiny
(1988, last amended 2008)

• Article 40 states, "The following persons may not be returning officers... foreigners, blind persons, illiterates.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Constitution Act on Popular Votes and Scrutiny
(1988, last amended 2008)

• Article 27 states that the Election Registry shall be recorder in books, and the pages with "vertical columns on each page employed as follows...signature of the person registered or note that the person registered is blind or illiterate, stamped by the Election Board, and...right thumb print of the registered person, or left, if the right is missing, or note certifying the absolute impossibility of obtaining a thumbprint."
• Article 28 states, “To facilitate voting by the blind, the Electoral Service shall provide facsimiles of the ballot material with a slot that serves to mark the choice you want, overlapping the template card...” [This is a very rought translation from the original Spanish text. It essentially provides for tacticle ballots for blind voters.”
• Article 54 states, “It shall be within the authority of the Electoral Board, without prejudice to other tasks established by this law...4) Instruct blind voters on the use of the the ballot template.”
• Article 61 states, “However, people with disabilities that impede them or make it difficult to exercise the right to vote may be accompanied by another person that is older in age, and he shall be entitled to assist in the act of voting. If in doubt regarding the nature of the disabilied voter, the President shall consult the memebrs and adopt a final decision. If you choose to be assisted, the persons with disabilities verbally communicate, through sign language, or in writing to the chairman of the board that a trusted person, without distinction to sex, will enter the voting booth.He cannot hinder the right to be assisted. The secretary of the board shall record the identity of the voter and his assistant.”
• Article 64 states, “The Bureau may provide to the blind separate ballots within the respective templates...”

• Constitution - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Chile/chile05.html
• Constitution Act on Popular Votes and Scrutiny - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Chile/Leye18700.pdf