General Right to Vote
Electoral Law:
(updated 1989: Parliamentary Election Act 1978)
• See Sections 3 and 4

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(2000)
• Section 30, subsection (1) states: "No person shall be qualified to be appointed as a Senator or elected as a member of the House of Assembly who…(c) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Bermuda."
• Section 55, subsection (2) states: "No person shall be qualified to be registered as aforesaid who, on the qualifying date…(b) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Bermuda."
Electoral Law:
(updated 1989: Parliamentary Election Act 1978)
• Section 4, subsection (2) states that a person "is not entitled to vote at a parliamentary election…if …(f) he is a person suffering from mental disorder within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 1968 [title 11 item 36] or is otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any statutory provision."

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(updated 1989: Parliamentary Election Act 1978)
• Section 52 states: "The Returning Officer, on the application of any parliamentary elector who is blind, unable to read or so physically incapacitated as to be unable to vote in the manner prescribed by section 51 to assist him in voting, shall require the elector making the application to take an oath in the prescribed form of his incapacity to vote without assistance and shall thereafter assist the elector by marking his ballot paper in the manner directed by such elector and if he so requests in the presence of one other presiding officer and a friend, and shall place the ballot paper in the ballot box."

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(updated 1989: Parliamentary Election Act 1978)
• Section 40, subsection (1) states: "Where any parliamentary elector who is duly registered…is or is likely to be on the polling day an inmate of any institution registered under subsection (4) and to be prevented by illness, infirmity or disability from traveling to the election room, it shall be lawful for such parliamentary elector to record his vote at an advanced poll to be held for that purpose at such institution on such date prior to the polling day as shall be appointed by the Registrar."
• Section 40, subsection (4) states: "Any hospital, home for the aged or other institution for the treatment of any chronic illness or disability with permanent accommodation for five or more patients may apply to the Registrar for registration for the purposes of subsection (1) and the Registrar may, if he is satisfied that it is reasonable to hold an advanced poll in such place, so register it."
• Section 41, subsection (1) states: "…any parliamentary elector who…is unable or likely to be unable by reason either of illness, infirmity or disability to travel to the election room, it shall be lawful for such parliamentary elector to record his vote at an advanced poll to be held for that purpose at such place…"
• Section 41, subsection (2) continues: "for the purpose of voting at any advanced poll held as above, such parliamentary elector must apply to the Chief Medical Officer for a specially issued card certifying incapacity and the Chief Medical Officer, if satisfied that the applicant is incapacitated, shall thereupon issue him with such a card under his hand for the purpose of enabling him to vote at an advanced poll, stating the name of such parliamentary elector and the fact that he is incapacitated."
• Section 41, subsection (3) concludes: "any parliamentary elector desiring to vote at any advanced poll…shall…be allowed to vote in like manner as he would have been entitled so to do on the day appointed for the taking of the poll."