General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(1973)
See section 32, subsection (2), clause (a)
Exclusion Based on Mental
Disability
Constitution:
(1973)
Article 26, section (1) states: "No person shall be qualified to
be appointed as a Senator if he
(c) is a person certified to be insane
or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Grenada."
Article 31, section (1) states: "No person shall be qualified to
be elected as a member of the House of Representatives if he
(c) is a person
certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any
law in force in Grenada."
Electoral Law:
(1993: Representation of the People Act)
Section 18 states: "No person shall be entitled to be registered
as an elector in any constituency who
(b) is a person adjudged to be of
unsound mind or detained as a criminal lunatic under any law in force in the
State
"
Voter Assistance by Other
Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1993: Representation of the People Act)
Section 66, 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. 14 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 ballot box."
Section 66, subsection (4) states: "The presiding officer shall
either deal with a blind elector in the same manner as with an otherwise incapacitated
voter, or, at the request of any blind elector who has taken the oath in Form
No. 15, and is accompanied by a friend who is a voter in the polling division,
shall permit such friend to accompany the blind elector 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 66, subsection (5) states that any friend who marks the ballot
paper for a blind voter is first required to fill out Form No. 16.
Section 66, 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."
Poll Worker Manuals:
Instructions to Returning Officers, Presiding Officers, and Poll Clerks (1984)
All voters requiring assistance except for blind voters must make oath
or sign solemn declaration that they cannot vote without assistance p 3
The presiding officer may mark his ballot for disabled voter in the presence
of "the poll clerk and of the sworn agents of the candidates " p 3
Blind Voter Assistance Provision states that "A blind elector may
be treated in the same manner as an incapacitated person, or [...] be permitted
to have his friend mark his ballot paper." p 3
Indelible Ink Excusal
Electoral Law:
(1993: Representation of the People Act)
Thumb ink discussion appears in Sections 62 and 63.