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Section 13
 

Disqualification from Voting



A person shall be disqualified from voting if


1. he or she is not eligible to vote owing to a judicial decision,


2. a custodian has been appointed not only through a restraining order to attend to all his or her affairs; this also applies when the custodian's sphere of duties does not include the affairs set forth in Section 1896 subsection (4) and Section 1905 of the Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch),


3. he or she is accommodated in a psychiatric hospital under an order pursuant to Section 63 of the Penal Code in conjunction with Section 20 of the Penal Code.


4. (Repealed)