Voters With Mental Disabilities Excluded From European Elections
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND June 14, 2004 --More than 1,400 people with mental disabilities were excluded from last Thursday's European elections, a Northern Ireland elections official reported.
Chief Electoral Officer Denis Stanley told Lord Rogan that 848 people in Northern Ireland were removed from the voting register after their relatives or caregivers told the office that they were not fit to vote. Another 614 were dropped from the register because they did not respond to letters from the Electoral Office requesting information about their state of mind.