Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimateRatified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Article VI, Section (1) states:
The Congress shall prescribe…provide for voter registration…and disqualification for mental incompetence or insanity…
Section 103 states:
Every Citizen of the Federated States of Micronesia is eligible to vote in a National Election if he or she …(5) is not currently under a judgment of mental incompetency or insanity…
Section 201 states:
To be eligible for election as a Member of the Congress, a person shall…(4) not be under a judgment of mental incompetency or insanity…
Section 603 states:
(2) Written requests to vote at a mobile Polling Place, using the forms required by the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to this title, must be submitted to the national election commissioner not more than 120 days before Election Day. If the absentee voter is unable to personally complete and deliver the request form to vote at a mobile Polling Place, then the absentee voter can request the assistance of a family member…
(4) Absentee voters voting at a mobile Polling Place shall vote in such manner as to ensure secrecy of ballot and to preclude tampering with the ballots of such voters and other election fraud; provided, that n voter who by reason of physical disability is unable to mark his or her ballot shall be authorized to receive assistance in the marking thereof.
(5) The National Election Director may require affidavits and other written statements from absentee voters voting at mobile Polling Place and from election officials who assist these voters to vote.