Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1981, last amended 2002)

• Article 58, section (1) states, “No person shall be qualified to be elected as a Member of the House of Representatives who...(c) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law.”
• Article 63, section (1) states, “No person shall be qualified to be appointed as a Senator who...(d) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law.”

Electoral Law
Representation of the People Act
(1980, last revised 2000)

• Article 7 states, “A person shall be disqualified to be registered, or being registered, to vote at an election and shall not be registered if such person is...(c) certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind or is a patient in any establishment maintained wholly or mainly for reception and treatment of persons suffering from mental illness of mental defectiveness by virtue of or under any law in force in Belize.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Representation of the People Act
(1980, last revised 2000)

• Article 26 states: "If any voter is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed by these rules, the presiding officer shall, at the request of that voter, in the presence of the agents (if any) of the candidates, cause his vote to be marked on a ballot paper in the manner directed by the presiding officer, and the ballot paper so marked to be placed in the ballot box, and the name and number on the proper register of voters of every voter whose vote is so marked for him and the reason why it is so marked shall be entered on a list which shall be kept by the presiding officer."
• Article 21, section (8) states, “A voter shall be marked by the dipping of the forefinger of his right hand up to at least the first joint in indelible ink. If a voter has no forefinger on his right hand or if for any other reasons it is, in the opinion of the presiding officer, not practical to mark such forefinger such other finger as the presiding officer shall direct shall be marked in the manner prescribed or, if in the opinion of the presiding officer it is not practical to mark any finger of a voter, such voter shall be marked with indelible ink in such way as the presiding officer may deem fit.”

• Constitution - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/constitutions/Belize/belize81.html
• Representation of the People Act - http://www.elections.gov.bz/modules/article_publish/files/files_4918e57ec592d.pdf