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Paragraph 64
 

Particularly, pre-trial detainees should not be excluded from exercising their right. While apart from in Belarus, pre-trial detainees are usually allowed to vote in European states, in practice, they are not always able to exercise their voting rights due to the lack of voting facilities in prison. Moreover, voting procedures for detainees are limited in some cases. In France and Netherlands, for instance, proxy voting is the only form of voting available for prisoners and voters in pre-trial detention.