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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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