General Right to Vote
Electoral Law
Guam Code, Title 3. Elections

• See Section 3101

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Electoral Law
Guam Code, Title 3. Elections

• Section 3101 states, "Every person not confined to a mental institution, nor judicially declared insane...shall have the right to vote for such municipal or district officer."
• Section 3122 states: "The Commission shall cancel the registration in the following cases...(b) When the insanity of a person registered is legally established."

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Electoral Law
Guam Code, Title 3. Elections

• Section 4105 states, "No person holding an elective office, or who is a candidate or nominee for elective office, or who cannot read and write English, shall be appointed or serve as a member of a precinct board.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Guam Code, Title 3. Elections

• Section 9142, subsection (a) states, “A voter may request assistance in voting to the precinct board, and assistance shall be granted thereby only if a voter is blind, physically disabled or unable to read or write.”
• Section 9142, subsection (b) states, “If the voter is granted the opportunity to have assistance, the voter shall be accompanied into the voting booth by two (2) precinct officials. If a voter with a physical disability finds it unduly burdensome to enter the polling place, the ballot may be completed within one hundred feet (100') of the polling place. The ballot shall be read to the voter who shall indicate that voter's choices. Such choices shall be properly marked by one (1) of the accompanying precinct officials while under the observation of the other. Any registered voter who enters the public grounds containing the polling place, but for some reasons is unable to enter the polling place itself, and who is capable of reading and marking that voter's ballot without assistance, shall be given the opportunity to vote. The Commission shall make the appropriate rules and regulations necessary to insure the privacy and integrity of any ballot case in such manner.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
Guam Code, Title 3. Elections

• Section 10101 states: "Any qualified voter of the territory of Guam may, as provided in this Chapter and subject to the conditions of this Section, vote at any election by absentee ballot if he will be prevented from personally going to the polls and voting on election day because of...(b) Illness or physical disability..."
• The remainder of Section 10101 details the procedures for absentee voting.

• Electoral Law - http://www.justice.gov.gu/compileroflaws/GCA/title3.html
• Organic Act of Guam (Constitution) - http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un-dpadm/unpan040336.pdf