Within this category, the following have to be included:
- legal reasons for the deprival of the right to active and/or passive suffrage because of a firm legal sentence, whether it be as a main or as a cumulative penalty, whose purpose it is to prevent those who have committed certain crimes from exercising their right to suffrage, insofar as that is what the sentence determines, for the duration
- those pertaining to the civil disqualification of anyone who has been declared unfit by judicial decision or admitted to a psychiatric hospital for being considered unfit to practice their right to vote in freedom and with responsibility as, if they were to vote, they would distort the overall results of the elections
In short, all those who are considered in a democratic society unfit to vote, whether it be because of moral disapproval, criminal conduct or because of an obvious incapacity to do so with freedom, fall under these causes for the loss of the right to vote.
