Editing Suffrage (section)

===Function===
In France, an 1872 law, rescinded by a 1945 decree, prohibited all army personnel from voting.<ref>{{Citation |url=http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/suffrage_universel/suffrage-extension.asp#militaires |title=Plénitude de la République et extension du suffrage universel |publisher=Assemblée nationale ([[National Assembly of France]]) |language=fr |access-date=5 December 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219153108/http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/suffrage_universel/suffrage-extension.asp |archive-date=19 December 2007}}</ref>

In Ireland, police (the [[Garda Síochána]] and, before 1925, the [[Dublin Metropolitan Police]]) were barred from voting in national elections, though not [[Local government in the Republic of Ireland|local elections]], from 1923 to 1960.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1923/act/12/section/5/enacted/en/html#sec5 |title=Electoral Act, 1923, Section 5 |work=[[Irish Statute Book]] |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1960/act/43/enacted/en/print |title=Electoral Act, 1960 |work=[[Irish Statute Book]] |pages=sec.3 and Schedule |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1955110200026 |title=Private Members' Business. – Garda Síochána Franchise—Motion. |date=2 November 1955 |work=Dáil Éireann debates |publisher=Oireachtas |access-date=8 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1960120600038 |title=Electoral Bill, 1960 – Second Stages |last=Blaney |first=Neil |date=6 December 1960 |work=Dáil Éireann debates |publisher=Oireachtas |quote=One of the important proposals is contained in Section 3 and in the Schedule which provides for the repeal of the prohibition on the registration of Gardaí as voters at Dáil elections. In future, if this provision is enacted, Gardaí can vote at Dáil and Presidential elections and at referendums. |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref>

The 1876 [[Constitution of Texas]] (article VI, section 1) stated that "The following classes of persons shall not be allowed to vote in this State, to wit: (...) Fifth—All soldiers, marines and seamen, employed in the service of the army or navy of the United States."<ref>{{Citation |url=http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/IART06.html |title=Constitution of the State of Texas (1876) |publisher=Tarlton Law Library, The [[University of Texas School of Law]] |access-date=8 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080129120120/http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/constitutions/text/IART06.html |archive-date=29 January 2008 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In many countries with a [[presidential system]] of government a person is forbidden to be a legislator and an official of the executive branch at the same time. Such provisions are found, for example, in Article I of the U.S. Constitution.