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."

• Constitution - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/ElSal/constitucion.pdf
• Electoral Code - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/americas/SV/el-salvador-codigo-electoral-2009/view