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Mauritania

General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(1991)
• Article 3 states: "(1) Suffrage may be either direct or indirect according to the provisions of the law. It shall always be universal, equal, and secret. (2) All the citizens of the Republic of both sexes, who are adults and possess their civil and political rights, may vote."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(source: IPU)
• Disqualifications from voting: insanity, must be in full possession of civil and political rights

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1996)
• Chapter VI, article 37 states: "All infirm citizens who find it impossible to cast their vote are able to appoint another voter to assist them."


 
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