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An amendment to Article 13(1)c of the Election Code narrowing down the restriction to a smaller group of “persons convicted to deprivation of liberty by a final judgment of the law court for serious, very serious and exceptionally serious crimes.”[9] The amendment to Article 13(1)c is an improvement, even though it lacks precision. It is also not clear whether the paragraph also includes those whose sentence has been fully served. Should this be the case, it would be unacceptably harsh. The code should further state that only explicit court decisions should remove the voting right and such decisions should only happen under sever circumstances.[10]