General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1973, amended 2010)

• See section 51 generally

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1973, amended 2010)

• Section 51, subsection (2) states, “A person shall be entitled to vote if... (d) he is not declared by a competent court to be of unsound mind.”
• Reiterated in the Electoral Roles Act (1974), section 6, subsection (2), part (b).
• Section 63, subsection (1) states, "A person shall be disqualified from being elected or chosen as, and from being a member of the Majilis-e-Shoora (Parliament) if (a) he is of unsound mind and has been so declared by a competent court..."

Electoral Law
The Conduct of General Elections Order
(2002)

• Section 8D, subsection (2) states, “A person shall be disqualified from being elected or chosen as, and from being, a member of Majlis-e-Shoora (Parliament) or a Provincial Assembly, if (a) he is of unsound mind and has been so declared by a competent court...”

The Representation of the People Act
(1976)

• Section 99, subsection (1 A) states, “A person shall be disqualified from being elected as, and from being, a member of an Assembly if (a) he is of unsound mind and has been so declared by a competent court.”

The Senate Election Act
(1975, as amended 2002)

• Section 78, subsection (a) states, “A person shall be disqualified from being elected as, and from being, a member of the Senate if (a) he is of unsound mind and has been so declared by a competent court.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Laws
Representation of the People (Conduct of Elections) Rules
(1977)

• Section 18, subsection (1) states, “If an elector is totally blind or physically otherwise so incapacitated as to require the help of a companion, the Presiding Officer may allow him to be accompanied by a companion of not less than twenty-one years of age; and, in case the disability is such that the elector cannot mark the ballot himself, the person accompanying the elector may mark the ballot paper as indicated by the elector.”
• The following acts also contain this same provision...
• Representation of the People Act (1976), Section 33, subsection (2), part (b)(7).
• Senate Election Rules (1976, Section 18, subsection (1).

• Constitution - http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/
• The Senate Elections Act - http://www.ecp.gov.pk/ElectionLaws/volume2.pdf (p. 7)
• http://www.ecp.gov.pk/ElectionLaws/volume1.pdf
• The Conduct of General Elections Order - p. 11
• The Representation of the People Act - p. 55
• The Representation of the People (Conduct of Elections) Rules – p.121