General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1978, last amended 1992)

• Article 68, section (1) states, "The House of Representatives is composed of a minimum of 300 and a maximum of 400 Deputies elected by universal, free, equal, direct, and secret suffrage under the terms established by law."

Specific Inclusion of People with Disabilities
Constitution
(1978, last updated 1992)

• Article 49 states "The public authorities shall implement a policy of prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and integration of those who are physically, sensorially, or mentally handicapped, who shall be given the special attention which they require and be afforded special protection for the enjoyment of the rights which this Title grants to all citizens."

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
Law on Regime of General Elections
(1985, last amended 2007)
(1985)

• Article 3.1 states, “The following persons cannot vote...(b) those who are declared incompetent by virtue of a judicial sentence, provided that the same declaration explicitly declares them incapable of exercising the suffrage (c) Residents of a psychiatric institution with judicial authorization during the period of detention if in the judge’s authorization [of their detention] the judge expressly declares their incapacity to exercise the right to vote.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Law on Regime of General Elections
(1985, last amended 2007)

• Article 87 states, “Those electors who cannot read or because of physical disability are prevented from filling in the ballot or placing it in the envelope in order to hand it to the President of the Polling Station, are able to use for these operations a person that they trust.”

• Constitution - http://www.senado.es/constitu_i/indices/consti_ing.pdf
• Law on Regime of General Elections - http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/2/topic/6 (Spanish)