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Voting rights for prisoners
February 15 , 2020
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- The Delhi High Court has rejected a petition seeking voting rights for prisoners.
- The right to cast vote is neither a fundamental right nor a common law right and is only provided by a statute.
- Section 62(5) of the Representation of the People Act,1951 says that no person shall vote at any election if he is confined in a prison.
- In Europe, Switzerland, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, the Baltic States, and Spain already allow prisoner voting.
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