Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateJersey has not yet signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article 35 states:
(1) In the case of a person entitled to vote who is ill, disabled or illiterate, the Autorisé or an Adjoint may take such measures as he or she considers appropriate for taking his or her vote on the day the poll is open, provided secrecy in voting is maintained.
(2) Those measures may include a visit to the person for the purpose of delivering a ballot paper to the person, attending whilst the person records his or her vote on it, and bringing the ballot paper back to the polling station and placing it in the ballot box.
Article 42, paragraph 11 states:
In the case of a person entitled to vote who is ill, disabled or illiterate, the Judicial Greffier shall take such measures as he or she considers appropriate for taking the person’s pre-poll vote before the time mentioned in paragraph (1), provided secrecy in voting is maintained.