General Right to Vote
Constitution:
• Article 72 states: "Political rights of a citizen are: (1) to vote. Commentary: In this Constitution, to vote means to cast a vote in a popular and direct election.

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
• Article 74 states: "Political rights of a citizen will be suspended for the following causes…(2) insanity. Commentary: …To be considered insane, one's insanity must be declared by a judge or a judicial tribunal and confirmed by psychiatrists…Mentally ill or deaf-mutes who cannot understand others or make themselves understood by writing can be declared incompetent by a judge.
Electoral Law:
(1994)
• Article 7 states: "The following persons are incapable of exercising suffrage…(2) those mentally impaired."

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Constitution:
• Article 74 states: "Political rights of a citizen will be suspended for the following causes…(2) insanity. Commentary: …Mentally ill or deaf-mutes who cannot understand others or make themselves understood by writing can be declared incompetent by a judge."

Exclusion Based on Disability
Electoral Law:
(1994)
• Article 222 states: "Candidates for the Municipal Councils will not be allowed...(4) Blinds, mutes, deafs and mentally alienated."

Promotes Access
Poll Worker Manuals:
Poll Worker Instructions (1997)
• Priority in line will be given to senior citizens, citizens with a physical disability, and pregnant women p. 15

Indelible Ink Excusal
Electoral Law:
(1994)
• Article 43 states: "The Electoral Card will bear the…signature of the Magistrate-President of the Tribunal, the signature of the person in whose favor it is being issued, if he is able to sign, and in any case the fingerprint of the thumb of his right hand or in defect of it, of the left-hand and his photograph, duly marked with the seal of the Tribunal. When a person cannot put fingerprints on account of mutilation of fingers, relation of the fact will be made in the document.