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Montserrat
General Right to
Vote
Electoral Law:
(1962: Constitution and Elections)
Section 41 states: "Subject to the provisions of subsection
(2), every person who
(b) is not a in force in the Colony
shall
be entitled to be registered as a voter and, when registered, to vote
at an election."
Exclusion Based
on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1989: Schedule 2 to the Order)
Section 28, subsection (1) states: "No person shall be qualified
to be appointed or elected as a member of the Legislative Council who
(f)
is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound
mind under any law in force in Montserrat
"
Electoral Law:
(1962: Constitution and Elections)
Section 9 states: "No person shall be qualified to be appointed
or elected as a member of the Council who
(f) is a person certified
to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law
in force in the Colony
"
Voter Assistance
by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1962: Constitution and Elections)
Section 70, 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 Ordinance, shall require the voter making such application to make
oath in the form set out as Form No. 19 in the Second Schedule of his
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 70, subsection (4) states: "The presiding officer
shall either deal with a blind voter
in the same manner as with an
otherwise incapacitated voter, or, at the request of any blind voter
and
who has taken the oath in the form set out as Form No. 20 in the Second
Schedule, and is accompanied by a friend who is a voter in the local electoral
district, shall permit such friend to accompany the blind
voter
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 70, subsection (5) states that any friend who marks the
ballot paper for a blind voter is first required to fill out Form No.
21.
Section 70, 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."
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