General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1947)

• Article 48 states, "Any citizen, male or female, who has attained majority, is entitled to vote. The vote is personal and equal, free and secret.”

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution
(1947)

• Article 48 states, “The right to vote cannot be restricted except for civil incapacity or as a consequence of an irrevocable penal sentence or in cases of moral unworthiness as laid down by law.”

• Constitution - http://www.senato.it/documenti/repository/istituzione/costituzione_inglese.pdf
• 2005 Law modifying electoral code - http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/22/topic/6