Disenfranchisement

1. The following have no right to vote:

a) Persons convicted by a final court’s decision to forfeiture of the right to vote as the main or as an accessory penalty during the term of the conviction.

b) Persons pronounced incapable by a final judicial decision, provided said decision specifically declares the incapacity for the exercise of suffrage.

c) Persons residing in a mental hospital by authorization of a court, where the court explicitly declares in said authorization the subject’s incapacity to exercise his right to vote.

2. For the purposes of this section, the courts or tribunals having jurisdiction for declaring incapacity or enforced residence in a mental hospital must specifically pronounce on the subject’s incapacity to exercise his right to vote, and if such is the case, they shall so notify the Civil Register for entry of the relevant note.