General Right to Vote
Constitution:
• Article 93 states, "Suffrage is a primary and compulsory civic function and is exercised before Election Boards through direct and secret vote by the citizens registered in the Civil Registry."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(9 August 1993)
• Article 1 states: "All Costa Ricans…are electors, with the following exceptions: (a) those persons who have legally been declared in a state of interdictions."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(9 August 1993)
• Article 119 states: "Blind persons, persons with no right thumb and persons disabled in both hands, shall vote publicly; at their request and according to their direction, the Presiding Officer shall mark the ballots in the corresponding column."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Instructions for Election Workers and Electors (1998)
• People who cannot vote alone may vote "publicly" with assistance of poll worker or "semi-publicly", by entering booth with assistant of his choosing p 37