General Right to
Vote
Constitution:
(1973)
• See section 32, subsection (2), clause (a)
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1973)
• Article 26, section (1) states: "No person shall be qualified
to be appointed as a Senator if he…(c) is a person certified to be
insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force
in Grenada."
• Article 31, section (1) states: "No person shall be qualified
to be elected as a member of the House of Representatives if he…(c)
is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound
mind under any law in force in Grenada."
Electoral Law:
(1993: Representation of the People Act)
• Section 18 states: "No person shall be entitled to be registered
as an elector in any constituency who…(b) is a person adjudged to
be of unsound mind or detained as a criminal lunatic under any law in
force in the State…"
Voter Assistance
by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1993: Representation of the People Act)
• Section 66, subsection (3) states: "The presiding officer,
on the application of any voter who is incapacitated from any physical
cause other than blindness from voting in the manner prescribed by this
Act, shall require the voter making such application to make oath in Form
No. 14 of the incapacity to vote without assistance, and shall thereafter
assist such voter by marking his ballot paper in the manner directed by
such voter in the presence of the poll clerk and of the sworn agents of
the candidates and of no other person, and shall place such ballot in
the ballot box."
• Section 66, subsection (4) states: "The presiding officer
shall either deal with a blind elector in the same manner as with an otherwise
incapacitated voter, or, at the request of any blind elector who has taken
the oath in Form No. 15, and is accompanied by a friend who is a voter
in the polling division, shall permit such friend to accompany the blind
elector into the voting compartment and mark the voter's ballot paper
for him. No person shall at any election be allowed to act as such friend
to more than one voter."
• Section 66, subsection (5) states that any friend who marks the
ballot paper for a blind voter is first required to fill out Form No.
16.
• Section 66, subsection (6) states "whenever any voter has
had his ballot paper marked as provided in subsection (3) or (4), the
poll clerk shall enter into the poll book opposite the voter's name…the
reason why such ballot paper was so marked."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Instructions to Returning Officers, Presiding Officers, and Poll Clerks
(1984)
• All voters requiring assistance except for blind voters must make
oath or sign solemn declaration that they cannot vote without assistance
p 3
• The presiding officer may mark his ballot for disabled voter in
the presence of "the poll clerk and of the sworn agents of the candidates
" p 3
• Blind Voter Assistance Provision states that "A blind elector
may be treated in the same manner as an incapacitated person, or [...]
be permitted to have his friend mark his ballot paper." p 3
Indelible Ink Excusal
Electoral Law:
(1993: Representation of the People Act)
• Thumb ink discussion appears in Sections 62 and 63.
