Voting rights in Esquarium

This article describes voting in Esquarium.

Voting rights by category

Country	Sex	Religion	Wealth, tax class, social class	Knowledge	Race	Function	Criminality	Nationality
Ainin
	Since 1908	Since 1798	Since 1798	Since 1798	Since 1810	Since 1798	Since 1901	Since 1990
	Since the establishment of the Provisional Republican Authority of Ainin in 1798, there has been universal male suffrage in Ainin, although Kannei Namorese and Minjianese people were initially disenfranchised as they were not granted citizenship until 1810 due to fears of disloyalty. The current Constitution of 1901 expanded suffrage by removing the Constitution of 1801's disenfranchisement of current prisoners, and a constitutional amendment in 1908 granted suffrage to women. As part of administrative changes following the founding of the Esquarian Community, any EC citizen who has resided in Ainin for six months may vote in elections.
Aucuria
	Since 1920	Since 1792/1952	Since 1792	Since 1792	Since 1792/1952	Since 1792	Since 1987	Since 2003
	After the 1792 Aucurian Revolution, the right to vote was granted to all male Aucurian citizens over the age of 20. In practice, however, the vote was denied to Atlian Muslims and, in some local cases, to Aukurish Jews. Anti-Semitic restrictions on voting were illegalized nationally in 1800 by Bendiktas Klimantis, but legalized in 1840 by Grigorijus Endrijauskas, illegalized again in 1853 by Eduardas Songaila, instated at the national level in 1872 by Žygimantas Ramanauskas, and abolished and illegalized in 1952 by Maksymas Užugiris. Atlian Muslims remained disenfranchised until 1952. Suffrage was extended to women in 1920. The minimum voting age was lowered to 18 by Endrijūs Dovydaitis in 1980. Laws preventing convicted felons from voting were passed in 1829, but repealed under President Saulė Valantiejutė in 1987. Citizens of other Esquarian Union countries who had lived in Aucuria for at least three years were allowed to vote in local elections in 2003 by Rožė Kulešiutė; after Aucuria joined the Esquarian Community, this was extended to citizens of other EC members.
Katranjiev
	Since 1918	Since 1906	Since 1885	Since 1885	Since 1918	Since 1885	Since 1992	Since 2008
	Wealth requirements were abolished in 1885, as well as knowledge tests and function. Non-Txoists and non-Christians were able to get the vote by 1906 with the repeal of the 1523 edict that recognized those two religions as the only legal religions. Women and non-whites (excluding Namorese, who already got the vote) were able to get the national vote in 1918. Felons were only able to get the vote in 1992 after a decision made by the Supreme Court of Katranjiev to permit felons to vote. Since 2008, permanent residents and legal immigrants are allowed to vote in local elections: prior to that, only residents of EC member states who lived in Katranjiev longer than six months can vote.
Lecia
	Since 2016	Since 1945	Since 2016	Since 1945	Since 1945	Since 1945
	In 1945, all males over 18 were allowed to vote before elections were banned in 1947. With the signing of a new constitution in 1965, the electorate was lowered to men over 21 without a criminal conviction and with assets of over 20,000 Lecistani florins. This was changed in 2015 to 10,000 LEF. The vote was extended to all Lecistani citizens over the age of 21, regardless of gender, wealth, or class, after the Second Lecistani Civil War as one of the stipulations of the Treaty of Szimóngôcz.
Luziyca
	Since 1964	Since 1863	Since 1863	Since 1863	Since 1947	Since 1964		Since 1994
	Prior to 1964, women were not permitted to vote in federal elections. As well, prior to 1947, non-whites were not permitted to vote in many regions, before the Supreme Court ruled that was unconstitutional. In 1964 when Bethlehem became eligible to vote, military personnel and civil servants were permitted to vote. In 1892, a Supreme Court case ruled that "criminals who have been found guilty of misdemeanors are eligible to vote, whilst those who are found guilty of a felony shall not be permitted to vote." Since 1971, felons are permanently disenfranchised once found guilty of a felony: felons have to be pardoned to be eligible to vote again. As well, resident of member Esquarian Community states can vote in local elections if they live there for more than six months.
Montecara
	Since 1869	Since 1596/1869	Since 1869	Never restricted	Never restricted	Never restricted	Since 1990
	Suffrage was extended to Jews in 1596 and religious barriers to voting were prohibited entirely in 1869. Universal adult suffrage was introduced with the adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of the Citizen in 1869 as part of the Liberal Revolution. Suffrage was extended to prisoners in 1990 by the Charter of Basic Rights.
Namor
	Since 1990	Since 1990	Since 1990	Since 1990	Since 1990	Since 1990
	Felons are permanently disenfranchised once found guilty of a felony, although they are eligible to vote if pardoned by the government.
Senria
	Since 1946	Since 1918	Since 1918	Since 1918	Since 1918	Since 1918
	During the 1918-1926 Senrian Revolution, the newly-declared Senrian Republic proclaimed that the right to vote was to be extended to all male Senrian citizens over the age of 25 with no felony crimes. Suffrage was extended to women in 1946 by Prime Minister Katurou Imahara, supposedly at the urging on his wife Keiko. The voting age was lowered to 22 in 1962 by Tokiyasu Kitamura, and to 20 in 1988 by Kiyosi Haruka.
Xiaodong
	Since 1938	Since 1990	Since 1938	Since 1990	Since 1938	Since 1938
	The first elections in Xiaodong were restricted to landowning, literate, ethnic Xiaodongese males of Xiaodongese citizenship over the age of 25 who were not in military service. The 1934 suffrage law saw voting rights extended to Xiaodongese citizens including men and women over the age of 25 if they passed a literacy test and met property qualifications. The 1988 Law of the Electorate abolished property qualifications. In 2003 the Law on the Electorate abolished literacy qualifications alongside lowering the voting age to 21 and enfranchising Christians. Currently voting rights are not granted to those mentally insane, in prison or non-Xiaodongese citizens.

Voting age

Nation	Voting age	Details
Ainin	18	Unchanged since independence.
Ambrose	21	The voting age was lowered from 23 in 1988.
Aucuria	18	The voting age was lowered from 20 in 1980.
Eibenland	18	Unchanged since the adoption of the current constitution.
Katranjiev	16	Lowered from 21 to 20 in 1948, from 20 to 18 in 1951, from 18 to 12 in 1965, and raised to 16 in 1987 (though with a grandfather clause permitting those already eligible to vote to continue voting)
Lecia	20	Universal male voting age was set at 18 in 1945, until rising to 20 in 1966.
Luziyca	18	Universal voting age was set at 18 in 1971, when it was lowered from 21 years.
Montecara	21	By unwritten constitutional convention.
Namor	18	The voting age of 18 was codified in Article 34 of the constitution.
Senria	20	The voting age was lowered from 25 to 22 in 1962, and thence from 22 to 20 in 1988.
Xiaodong	21	The voting age was lowered from 25 in 1989.