Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Interim Agreement:
(28 September 1995)
• Annex II, Article II, section 1, subsection (k) states: "The following persons will be disqualified from being entered on the Electoral Register…(2) any person declared incapable by judicial decision; and (3) any person detained in a psychiatric institution by judicial decision, during the period of that detention."
Electoral Law:
(1995: Election Law)
• Article 8 states: "Any person shall not be entitled to vote if he or she…(b) has been declared incapable by judicial ruling."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1995: Election Law)
• Article 74, section 3 states: "If the elector is illiterate or unable to mark the ballot paper, he or she may be helped by an elector of his or her trust, with the permission of the Commission, which shall establish the real will of the elector. The elector may ask the President of the Polling Station Commission to supervise his or her vote."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Polling Day Synopsis
• Any voter who cannot read or write and whose handicap prevents them from marking the ballot may be assisted by someone of the voter's choice p 6
• The voter may request that the PSC president control the procedure p 6