General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1980, las amended 1996)

• Article 59 states, "Subject to the provisions of article 159, every person may vote at an election if he is of the age of eighteen years or upwards and is either a citizen of Guyana or a Commonwealth citizen domiciled and resident in Guyana."

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1980, last amended 1996)

• Article 155 section (1) states: "No person shall be qualified for election as a member of the National Assembly who...(b) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Guyana."
• Article 159 section (3) states: "No person shall be qualified to be so registered who on the qualifying date is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Guyana."

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Constitution
(1980, last amended 1996)

• Article 53 states, "Subject to Article 155 (which relates to allegiance, insanity, and other matters) a person shall be qualified for election as a member of the National Assembly if, and shall not be so qualified unless, he...(b) is able to speak and, unless incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause, to read the English language with a degree of proficiency sufficient to enable him to take an active part in the proceedings of the Assembly."

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Representation of the People Act
(1964, last amended 1998)

• Section 54, subsection a, part iii, “[Regarding voting by nonresident electors] if the non-resident elector is incapacitated by blindness or other physical cause from personally complying with the fore- going provisions of this paragraph, the ballot attendant may, at the request of the non-resident elector comply or permit a person appointed by the non-resident elector comply with any such provisions on his behalf, in his presence and according to his directions.”
• Section 73, subsection (1) states, "The presiding officer, on the application of any voter who is incapacitated by blindness or any other physical cause from voting in the manner prescribed by section 72 and who takes an oath in Form 21, mark the ballot paper of such elector in his presence and in the manner directed by him."
• Section 73, subsection (2) states, "The presiding officer may, at the request of any elector who is incapacitated in the manner prescribed in subsection (1) and who has taken the oath in Form 22, and is accompanied by a friend, permit such friend, if he is an elector entitled to vote at the polling place, immediately after he has voted on his own behalf, and notwithstanding that his finger has been immersed in electoral ink, to accompany the elector into the voting compartment and mark his ballot for him: Provided that no person may mark the ballot paper of more than one elector as his friend..."
• Section 73, subsection (3) states, "whenever any voter has had his ballot paper marked in accordance with this section, the poll clerk shall enter into the poll book opposite the name of the elector the fact that the ballot paper was so marked, the reason therefore and, if marked by a friend, the name and the number in the official list of electors of that friend.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
Representation of the People Act
(1964, last amended 1998)

• Section 27 subsection (3) states, "Every elector who votes at an election shall, subject to the provisions of this Act relating to voting by proxy and to the marking of ballot papers on behalf of blind and incapacitated electors, vote at a polling place in person."
• Section 30 subsection (1) states: "The following electors shall be entitled to vote by proxy at an election...(c) those unable, or likely to be unable, by reason either of blindness or any other physical incapacity, to go in person to the polling place or, if able to go, to vote unaided."

• Constitution - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Constitutions/Guyana/guyana96.html
• Representation of the People Act - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Guyana/guyrep01.html
• Representation of the People Act reforms - http://pdba.georgetown.edu/Electoral/Guyana/guyrep02.html