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El Salvador

General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1983)

  • Article 72 states: "Political rights of a citizen are: (1) to vote..

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1983)

  • Article 74 states: "Political rights of a citizen will be suspended for the following causes...(2) insanity.”

Electoral Code
(1992, last amended 2000)

  • Article 7 states, “The following persons are incapable of exercising suffrage...(2) those mentally impaired.”
  • Article 110 states, “In order to be a member of the electoral boards one must…not have any of the disqualifications in Articles 74 and 75.”  Repeated in Article 115.
  • Article 119 states, “In order to be a member of the polling board one must...not have any of the disqualifications in Articles 74 and 75.”
  • Article 222 states, "Candidates for the Municipal Councils will not be allowed...(4) Blinds, mutes, deafs and mentally alienated."

 



 
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