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Germany's top court decided in 2019 that adults who have legal guardians should no longer be barred from taking part in elections, and many of them did get to vote for the first time in Germany's recent election. The new law affects tens of thousands of Germans -- mostly with a range of learning disabilities, some also with physical impairments such that they require a legal guardian --who had been barred from voting on a case-by-case basis. All you need is the will to vote, and you deserve to do so, said Peer Brocke, spokesman for the organization Lebenshife, Germany's largest NGO advocating for people with disabilities.
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