General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1917, as amended 2005)

• Article 1 states, “Discrimination based on ethnic or national origin as well as discrimination based on gender, age, disabilities of any kind, social status, health condition, religious opinion, preferences of any kind, civil status or any other reason which attempts against human dignity and which is directed either to cancel or restrain the individuals’ privileges and immunities, shall be prohibited.”
• Article 35 states, “Every citizen shall be entitled to: I. Vote at popular elections.”

Electoral Law
Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures
(1997, amended 2008)

• Article 4 states, "(1) To vote in the elections constitutes a right and an obligation of the citizen that is to be exercised in order to form the State governmental organs of popular election. (2) The vote is universal, free, secret, direct, personal, and non-transferable. (3) Any action prohibiting the voter from voting is illegal."

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law
Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures
(1997, amended 2008)

• Article 120 states: "To be part of an electoral board one needs...(h) to know how to read and write and be 70 years old or younger on the day of the election."

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures
(1997, amended 2008)

• Article 265, section (2) states, “Those voters that do not read or are found to be physically impeded from marking the voting ballot are able to have a person they trust accompany them.”

Poll Worker Manual
Polling Place Guidebook
(2000)

• If a person is blind, visually impaired, or incapacitated in such a way as to prevent his from voting independently, he may receive assistance in marking his ballot from a companion p 30

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures
(1997, amended 2008)

• Article 185 states, "Mexican citizens that reside within the national territory and are physically disabled to appear before the Executive Board of the Federal Registry of Electors, corresponding to his/her home address, can submit the registration request by mail, along with documentation supporting his/her disability. In those circumstances, the Executive Board of the Federal Registry of Electors will dictate measures to deliver the credentials for the voter with physical disabilities for them to vote."

• Constitution - http://www.juridicas.unam.mx/infjur/leg/constmex/pdf/consting.pdf
• Federal Code of Electoral Institutions and Procedures - http://aceproject.org/ero-en/regions/americas/MX/leyes-electorales/mexico-cofipe-2008/view
• Polling Place Guidebook -