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Suriname

General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(1992)
• See articles 57-59

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Electoral Law:
(1987)
• Article 6 states: "The following persons are excluded from exercising their right to vote…(c) those who, under an irrevocable court order on account of insanity or frailty of intellectual facilities, have lost control over their property."
Constitution:
(updated 1992)
• Article 58 states: "Those persons shall be debarred from exercising the right to vote…(c) Who, by virtue of an irrevocable judicial decision, have lost the right to dispose of or administer their property on account of insanity or imbecility."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1987)
• Article 102 states: "The polling station may allow a voter to have himself assisted if he is physically disabled."


 
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