Ecuador

Article 1 states:

Suffrage is a right and duty of Ecuadorian citizens…The vote of illiterate people is optional. A citizen is credited with an identification card.

Excerpt from the Codification of the Law of Elections (2000)

Article 61 states:

Ecuadorians benefit from the following rights: …

• (7) To hold and discharge public office and duties on the basis of merits and capacities and in a transparent, inclusive, equitable, pluralistic and democratic selection and designation system that guarantees their participation, on the basis of criteria of gender equity and parity, equal opportunities for persons with disabilities, and intergenerational participation…

Article 62 states:

The persons in possession of political rights have the right to equal, direct, secret and publicly scrutinized universal suffrage, in conformity with the following provisions:

• (1) Voting shall be mandatory for persons over eighteen years of age. Detained persons who have not been convicted and sentenced shall exercise their right to vote.
• (2) Voting shall be optional for persons between sixteen and eighteen years of age, elderly persons over sixty-five years of age, Ecuadorians who live abroad, members of the Armed Forces and National Police Force, and persons with disabilities.

Excerpts from the Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador (2008)

Article 78 states:

…The Central Electoral Commission will apply mechanisms of accessibility for people with disabilities in order for the exercise of suffrage, incorporating them into the electoral institution enacted in this process…

Excerpt from the General Rules for Elections During the Transitional Regime of the Constitution of the Republic (2008)