ABSTRACT
Many convicted offenders around the world do not vote in elections because they have been legally deprived of their voting rights. This is the case in countries such as Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, France, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Offenders belong to one of the few categories of electoral exclusions that remain generally in force from the time prior to the principle of universal suffrage. Even though the legal regulation of elections is considerably diverse, there is a considerable continuity in the exclusion of criminal offenders. The other categories that are commonly excluded are children, people with mental disabilities, and foreign citizens.2 All these categories of exclusion are the object of analysis and debate.3
