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
Representation of the People Act
(1993)

• 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..."

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Constitution
(1973)

• Section 25 states, “...a person shall not be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Representatives...unless he...(c) is able to speak, and unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical disability, to read the English language with sufficient proficiency to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the Senate.”
• Section 30 states, “...a person shall not be qualified to be elected as a member of the House of Representatives...unless he...(c) is able to speak, and unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical disability, to read the English language with sufficient proficiency to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the House.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Electoral Law, House of Representatives (Elections)
(1959, last updated 2005)

• Section 45, subsection (2) states, “The presiding officer shall instruct the elector how to make his mark, and shall properly fold the elector's ballot paper, directing him to return it, when marked, folded as shown, but without inquiring or seeing for whom the elector intends to vote, except when the elector is unable to vote in the manner prescribed by this Ordinance on account of blindness or other physical incapacity".
• Section 47, subsection (3) states, “The presiding officer on application of any elector who is incapacitated, from any physical cause other than blindness, from voting in the manner prescribed by this ordinance, shall require the elector making such application to make oath in the form set out as Form No. 35 in the First Schedule of his incapacitation to vote without assistance, and shall thereafter assist such elector by marking his ballot paper in the manner directed by such elector in the presence of the poll clerk and of the sworn agents of the candidates and of no other person, and shall place the ballot in the ballot box.”
• Section 47, subsection (4) states, “The presiding officer shall either deal with a blind elector in the same manner as with an otherwise incapacitated elector, or, at the request of any blind elector who has taken the oath in the form set out as Form No. 36 in the First Schedule, and is accompanied by a friend who is an elector in the polling division, shall permit such friend to accompany the blind elector into the voting compartment and mark the voting paper for him. No person shall at any election be allowed to act as the friend of more than one blind elector.”
• Section 47, subsection (5) states, “Any friend who is permitted to mark the ballot paper of a blind elector as aforesaid shall first be required to take an oath in the form set out as Form No. 37 in the First Schedule that he will keep secret the name of the candidate for whom the ballot of such blind elector is marked by him, and that he has not already acted as the friend of a blind elector as the pending election.”
• Section 47, subsection (6) states, “Whenever any voter has had his ballot 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.”

Representation of the People Act
(1993)

• Sections 62 and 63 discussion indelible ink excusals for disabled persons.
• 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
Guidelines to Proper Conduct of Election Officials

• The guidelines state, “[Election officials should] do everything possible to provide a way to vote for people with special needs, such as blind, physically handicapped, or illiterate voters or voters living in remote areas.”

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

• Constitution - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Grenada/gren73eng.html
• Representation of the People Act -
• Electoral Law, House of Representatives (Elections) - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Grenada/greley.html
• Instructions to Returning Officers, Presiding Officers, and Poll Clerks -
• Guidelines to Proper Conduct of Election Officials - http://www.gov.gd/egov/docs/other/code_conduct.pdf