ARTICLE IV - CITIZENSHIP

ARTICLE V - SUFFRAGE

PROHIBITION ON
SUBSTANTIVE REQUIREMENT
Article V, Sec. 1 declares that
no literacy, property or
other substantive
requirement shall be imposed
on the exercise of suffrage.

SANCTITY AND
SECRECY OF THE BALLOT
AND ABSENTEE VOTING

Who can vote in the Philippines?

Art. V, Sec. 2 declares that The

Congress
shall
provide
a
system for securing the
secrecy and sanctity of the
ballot as well as a system for
absentee voting by qualified
Filipinos abroad.
The Congress shall also design
a procedure for the disabled
and the illiterate to vote without
the assistance of other persons.

**For the first two disqualifications, right to vote is reacquired upon expiration of five (5) years after service of sentence.