In a democratic system, restrictive privileges, typical of the times prior to the advent of universal suffrage, are not acceptable. However, nowadays this question has re-surfaced in a different form, namely, in the controversy around the fairness (or even the necessity) to favour the vote of certain groups traditionally excluded on ethnic, racial, religious, cultural or even sexual grounds.
Throughout this work, the possibility of including mechanisms of positive discrimination is discussed, ranging from the reservation of certain posts in the electoral lists to the creation of electoral districts based on this type of criterion (see Voters' Qualifications, Candidates' Qualifications and Electoral Boundaries).
In this sense, forms of privileged voting, which had ceased to be the target of political discussion only a few decades ago, have returned in a different light and with vastly different kinds of justification to make up an element of the electoral system.
