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Comoros

General Right to Vote
Election Law
(March 6, 1996)
• Article 2 states: "Suffrage is universal. No one may oppose voters from voting except for cases of incapacity expressly stated in the law."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(March 6, 1996)
• Article 7 states: "Voters are citizens of both sexes, 18 years old as a minimum on the day of the election who enjoy their political and civic rights and are not deemed incapable before the law as present in text or special laws."
• Article 9 states: "The following are not to be registered: those who have definitive title, non-rehabilitable people by a judicial decision, and the seriously incompetent."

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law:
(March 6, 1996)
• Article 90 states: "Assistance exists for the infirm."


 
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