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Pakistan
General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1973, amended 2010)
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).
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