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General Right to Vote
Electoral Law:
(1962: Constitution and Elections)
• Section 41 states: "Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), every person who…(b) is not a in force in the Colony…shall be entitled to be registered as a voter and, when registered, to vote at an election."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1989: Schedule 2 to the Order)
• Section 28, subsection (1) states: "No person shall be qualified to be appointed or elected as a member of the Legislative Council who…(f) is a person certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Montserrat…"
Electoral Law:
(1962: Constitution and Elections)
• Section 9 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…"

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1962: Constitution and Elections)
• Section 70, 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 the form set out as Form No. 19 in the Second Schedule 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 70, 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 the form set out as Form No. 20 in the Second Schedule, 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 70, subsection (5) states that any friend who marks the ballot paper for a blind voter is first required to fill out Form No. 21.
• Section 70, 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."