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General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(updated 1998)
Article 119, section (1) states, "Every citizen who (a) has attained
the age of twenty- one years on the qualifying date; and (b) is resident in
a constituency on such qualifying date or, if not so resident, is an absent
voter is entitled to vote in that constituency in any election to the House
of Representatives or the Legislative Assembly unless he is disqualified under
Clause (3) or under any law relating to offences committed in connection with
elections; but no person shall in the same election vote in more than one constituency."
Exclusion Based on Mental
Disability
Constitution:
(updated 1998)
Article 48, section (1) states: "Subject to the provisions of this
Article, a person is disqualified for being a member of either House of Parliament
if (a) he is and has been found or declared to be of unsound mind."
Article 119, section (3) states: "A person is disqualified for being
a elector in any election to the House of Representatives or the Legislative
Assembly if (a) on the qualifying date he is detained as a person of unsound
mind or is serving a sentence of imprisonment."
Electoral Law:
(source: IPU)
Disqualifications from voting: insanity