Quote
"The CRPD Committee has consequently been very clear that the treaty does not permit the removal of legal capacity based on mental or intellectual disability. It is clear that neither general nor individualized court decisions are acceptable bases for the removal of suffrage rights. In 2011, in Bujdosó and five others v. Hungary, the Committee heard a case in which persons with intellectual disability were placed under partial or full guardianship and their names automatically removed from the electoral register. The Committee found that the “exclusion of the right to vote on the basis of a perceived, or actual psychosocial or intellectual disability, including a restriction pursuant to an individualized assessment, constitutes discrimination on the basis of disability”."
Cite
Document
OSCE (ODIHR): Handbook on Observing and Promoting the Electoral Participation of Persons with Disabilities, p. 22

Download Document

Handbook on Observing and Promoting the Electoral Participation of Persons with Disabilities

Russian

English

×