Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Guam has not yet signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 2 states:
(a) The GEC must address a lack of uniformity in knowledge and training of GEC board members, staff, temporary workers and volunteers, relative to providing instructions to voters; treatment of absentee ballots and voters; treatment of provisional voters; handling of ballots; dealing with challenges; absentee voting and handling of absentee ballots; setting up the polling place; and any other training needs. Such checklists should be devised to ensure that workers: …
(b) Should Guam statutes permit early voting, an early voting checklist must be prepared and utilized during a legally authorized early voting period prior to election day. The checklist shall include, but not be limited to the following:
Section 3, part (a) states:
Posters and signage concerning voting rights, provisional ballots, voter identification laws, and assistance for the disabled, shall be placed in a conspicuous location at each polling site on election day.
Title 3, section 8214 states:
Any person who furnishes any blind or illiterate voter with a ballot, informing or giving that voter to understand that it contains a name written or printed thereon that is different from the name which is written or printed thereon, or, defrauds any voter at any election by deceiving and causing that person to vote for a different person for any office other than for whom the voter intended or desired to vote, is guilty of a felony of the third degree.
Title 3, section 9123, part (e) states:
A person does not obtain or lose residency solely by reason of that person’s presence or absence while employed in the services of the United States, or of the government of Guam, or while a student at an institution of learning, or while kept in an institution, a hospital, or asylum, or while confined in prison.
Title 3, section 9136 states:
(a) A voter may request assistance in voting to the precinct board, and assistance shall be granted thereby only if a voter is blind, physically disabled, or unable to read or write.
(b) If a voter is granted assistance, the voter shall be accompanied into the voting booth by one (1) precinct official and another person designated by the voter. If a voter with a physical disability finds it unduly burdensome to enter the polling place, the ballot may be completed within one hundred (100) feet of the polling place. A precinct official shall read the ballot to the voter who shall indicate his or her choices. Such choices shall be properly marked by the attending precinct official while under the observation of the other person designated by the voter. Any registered voter who enters the public grounds containing the polling place, but for some reason is unable to enter the polling place itself, and who is capable of reading and marking the ballot without assistance, shall be given the opportunity to vote. The Commission shall determine other appropriate rules and regulations necessary to ensure the voter’s privacy and protect the integrity of any ballot. Such rules and regulations shall be outlined in the Election Manual.
Title 3, section 10101 states:
Any qualified voter of Guam may, as provided in this Chapter and subject to the conditions of this Section, vote in any election by absentee ballot if he or she will be prevented from personally going to the polls and voting on election day because of… (b) illness or physical disability…
Title 3, section 10113 states:
Except for a uniformed or overseas voter as defined by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, at any time on or before the day of an election an absentee voter may appear before the Commission, or any person appointed or designated by the Commission may go to any voter on Guam if he or she is incapacitated, or any Notary Public or any officer of Guam, or before any Notary Public or any officer of any state, territory or municipality within the United States or in the District of Columbia, at the time of receiving his or her ballot to mark and secure his or her ballot.
Title 6, section 1230, part (6) states:
If the voter is unable to read or write, the precinct official in charge of the roster, shall enter the name and address of the voter and initial his name next to it.
Title 6, section 1239 states:
At least two (2) members of the precinct board shall be available to assist any voter who cannot read or write or if physically unable to mark the ballot. The ballot must be marked only at the explicit direction of the voter. Such marking is to take place in the voting booth, and the assisting officials shall not reveal the person's vote at any time to any other person.