General Right to Vote
Electoral Law
Public Elections Law
(2002, last amended 2011)

• Article 5, section (1) states, “A person is entitled on a particular day to have his name included on the electoral register for an electoral district if on that day (a) the person is at least 18 years old, (b) the person is ordinarily resident in that district...”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Public Elections Law
(2002, last amended 2011)

• Article 35, section (1) states, “In the case of a person entitled to vote who is ill, disabled or illiterate, the Autorise or an Adjoint may take such measures as he or she considers appropriate for taking his or her vote, provided secrecy in voting is maintained.”
• Article 35, section (2) states, “Those measures may include a visit to the person for the purpose of delivering a ballot paper to the person, attending whilst the person records his or her vote on it, and bringing the ballot paper back to the polling station and placing it in the ballot box.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
Public Elections Law
(2002, last amended 2011)

• Article 35, section (2) states, "Those measures [referring to section (1)] may include a visit to the person."
• Article 38 states, “A person entitled to vote at a poll for a public election is entitled to do so before the poll if...(b) the person has commitments, or a disability, that will prevent him or her from attending personally at a polling station on polling day.”

• Jersey does not have a written constitution.
• Public Elections Law - http://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%2fconsolidated%2f16%2f16.600_PublicElections(Jersey)Law2002_RevisedEdition_1January2009.htm
• Public Elections Law, 2011 Amendments - http://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%2fhtm%2fLawFiles%2f2011%2fL-11-2011.htm
• Public Elections Regulations - http://www.jerseylaw.je/Law/display.aspx?url=lawsinforce%2fconsolidated%2f16%2f16.600.50_PublicElectionsRegs2002_RevisedEdition_1January2010.htm