Ghana

Table of Contents:

• Exclusion or Potential Exclusion Based on Disability
• Assistive Tools and Policies
• Candidacy or Holding Office

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Section 7 states:

(1) A person qualifies to be registered as a voter if…

• (b) he is of sound mind…

(5) A person who is a patient in an establishment maintained wholly or mainly for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from mental illness or mental defectiveness or who is detained in legal custody in any place shall not be treated as resident there for the purposes of this section…

 

Section 9, subsection 2 states:
A person shall not be qualified to be a member of Parliament if he…

• (b) has been adjudged or otherwise declared
  • (ii) to be of unsound mind or is detained as a criminal lunatic under any law in force in Ghana…
• (f)  is not qualified to be registered as a voter under any law relating to public elections…

 

Excerpts from the Representation of the People Law (1992, last amended 2006)

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Section 30 states:

An election officer, clerk, interpreter or other person who has a duty to perform, whether under this Law or otherwise, in relation to an election and who -

• …(c) refuses to permit a person whom he knows or has reasonable cause to believe to be a person who is blind or incapacitated from voting by other physical cause to vote in the manner provided for such persons…commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding ¢1 million or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both.

 

Section 31, subsection 4 states:

A person who has undertaken to assist

• (a) a blind voter to vote; or
• (b) a voter who is incapacitated from voting by any other physical cause to vote, shall not communicate at any time to another person information as to the candidate for whom that disabled voter intends to vote or has voted, or as to the number, if any, on the ballot paper given for the use of the disabled voter.

 

Excerpts from the Representation of the People Law (1992, last amended 2006)

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Section 9, subsection 2 states:

A person shall not be qualified to be a member of Parliament if he…

• (b) has been adjudged or otherwise declared
  • (ii) to be of unsound mind or is detained as a criminal lunatic under any law in force in Ghana…
• (f)  is not qualified to be registered as a voter under any law relating to public elections…

 

Excerpt from the Representation of the People Law (1992, last amended 2006)