General Right to Vote
Electoral Law:
(1994)
See Section 6
Exclusion Based on Mental
Disability
Constitution:
(1976)
Article 29, section (1) states: "No person shall be qualified to
be elected as a member of the Legislative Council who
(c) is a person certified
to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force
in the Virgin Islands."
Article 31, section (2) states: "No person shall be qualified to
be registered as a voter under this section who on the qualifying date (a) is
a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind
under any law in force in the Virgin Islands."
Voter Assistance By Other
Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1994)
Section 46, 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 Act, shall
require the voter making such application to make oath in Form No. 22 of the
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 box."
Section 46, 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 Form No. 23, 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 46, subsection (5) states that any friend who marks the ballot
paper for a blind voter is first required to fill out Form No. 24.
Section 46, 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."