Liechtenstein

Table of Contents:

• General Right to Vote
• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies

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Article 1, section 1 states:

In the affairs of state, those entitled to vote are all citizens who have reached their 18th year, and have lived for at least one month before the election in the place they normally reside.

 

Article 3 states:

Participation in elections is a citizen's obligation.

 

Excerpts from the People's Rights Act (1973, last amended 2001)

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Article 2 states:

Persons are excluded from the right to vote:…

• (b) those under guardianship...;
• (d) those who have been officially ordered into an institution, for the duration of their hospitalization.

 

Article 4, section 1 states:

Excuses for not participating at elections are…

• (b) illness or frailty,
• (c) grave illness or death in the family.

 

Excerpts from the People's Rights Act (1973, last amended 2001)

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Article 8a, section 1 states:

Postal votes can be delivered in the event of…

• (a) sickness and frailty

 

Excerpt from the People's Rights Act (1973, last amended 2001)