General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(1983)
• Section 29, subsection (2) states, "Every Commonwealth citizen of the age of eighteen years or upward who possesses such qualifications relating to residence or domicile in Saint Christopher and Nevis as Parliament may prescribe shall, unless he is disqualified by Parliament from registration as such, be entitled to be registered as a voter for the purpose of electing Representatives in one (but not more than one) constituency in accordance with the provisions of any law in that behalf and no other person may be registered as such."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1983)
• Section 28, subsection (1) states: "A person shall not be qualified to be elected or appointed as a member if he…(d) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudge to be of unsound mind under any law."
Electoral Law:
(1952, updated 1962: Constitution and Elections)
• Section 9, subsection (1) 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…"
• Section 43 states: "No person shall be registered as a voter or be entitled to vote at an election who…(b) is a person adjudged to be of unsound mind or detained as a criminal lunatic under any law in force in the Colony…"

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1952, updated 1962: Constitution and Elections)
• Section 72, 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…Form No. 13…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 72, subsection (4) continues: "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…who has taken the oath…in Form No. 14…and is accompanied by a friend who is a voter in the polling division, 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 72, subsection (5) states that any friend who marks the ballot paper for a blind voter is first required to fill out Form No. 15.
• Section 72, 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."