![Caption: Who’s allowed to have a say here? The Landsgemeinde (people’s assembly) in Trogen (Canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden). As depicted by Johann Jakob Mock, 1814.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/landsgemeinde-trogen-titel-300x225.jpg)
Deprived of a voice
Too young, too foreign, too different? Fifty years on from the introduction of voting and electoral rights for women, the issue of political participation is still a hot topic. A historical overview of disenfranchisement in Switzerland.
No vote without a passport
![A prerequisite for political rights in many parts of the country: a Swiss passport. Example from 1945.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/pass-DIG-46109_LM-1741801-217x300.jpg)
No voting by minors
No vote for the mentally disabled
Who in Switzerland is allowed to vote? Explanatory video by ch.ch chchportal / YouTube
Vote now!
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Until 14 January 2022, the Swiss National Library in Bern is showing the exhibition ‘Vote now! On the right to have a say’. In the exhibition, the Library explores selected aspects of the past and present of co-determination in Switzerland. For a look at the exhibition, visit the website www.nationalbibliothek.ch