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Article 48
 

[Voting Rights]

(1) All citizens, men or women, who have attained their majority are entitled to vote.

(2) Voting is personal, equal, free, and secret. Its exercise is a civic duty.

(3) The law defines the conditions under which the citizens residing abroad effectively exercise their electoral right. To this end, a constituency of italians abroad is established for the election of the Chambers, to which a fixed number of seats is assigned by constitutional law in accordance with criteria determined by law.

(4) The right to vote may not be limited except for incapacity, as a consequence of an irrevocable criminal sentence, or in cases of moral unworthiness established by law.