The recommendation to reconsider the blanket ban on prisoners’ voting rights is particularly acute following the recent judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in Kulinski and Sabev v. Bulgaria of 21 July 2016.73 Here, the Court found that the blanket deprivation of prisoners’ voting rights in the Constitution and the Electoral Code was not proportionate and thus amounted to a violation of Article 3 of Protocol 1 to the Convention.