Total Population
Population with a disability
according to World Health Organization’s 15% estimate2024
Puerto Rico has not yet signed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Section 3.008 states:
The [Election Commission] Chair, Alternate Chair, and Vice Chairs may be removed from office for the following reasons… 5. Partial or total and permanent disability that impairs them from discharging their duties...
Section 3.012 states:
In the event that the [Election Commission] Secretary is temporarily absent or disabled, the First Deputy Secretary shall become Acting Secretary for the length of said absence or disability…
Section 3.014 states:
…Alternate [Election] Commissioners shall perform the duties of the Election Commissioners in case of absence, disability, resignation, death, removal or when the office is vacant for any reason, and until the Election Commissioner in question returns to his/her duties or a new designation is made...
Section 5.002 states:
…The Alternate Chair [of the Election Commission] shall carry out the functions of the Chair in case of absence, disability, death, removal, or when, for any reason, a vacancy arises in said office...
Section 6.003 states:
Any citizen of the United States of America and of Puerto Rico who is legally domiciled in the Island’s jurisdiction and who, by the date of a scheduled election event, has attained the age of eighteen (18) years, is duly qualified prior to said election event, and has not been declared mentally incompetent by a Court of Law shall be a voter in Puerto Rico.
Section 6.005 states:
Any person who is declared mentally incompetent by a Court of Law shall not be entitled to exercise his/her right to vote, even if he/she is a qualified voter.
Section 6.017, subsection (a) states:
In order to exclude a voter who appears in the General Voter Registry, a voter’s registration challenge and exclusion petition form shall be filed with the local election commission concerned, based on one or more of the following grounds:…
Section 6.021 states:
The Courts Administrator shall send to the Commission, on a monthly basis during an election year and on a quarterly basis during years in which elections are not held, a list of those persons who have been legally declared as mentally incompetent...
Article 3, section 5 states:
No person shall be a member of the Legislative Assembly unless he is able to read and write the Spanish or English language and unless he is a citizen of the United States and of Puerto Rico and has resided in Puerto Rico at least two years immediately prior to the date of his election or appointment…
Article 4 states:
…(7) When a vacancy occurs in the office of Governor, caused by death, resignation, removal, total and permanent incapacity, or any other absolute disability, said office shall devolve upon the Secretary of State, who shall hold it for the rest of the term and until a new Governor has been elected and qualifies. In the event that vacancies exist at the same time in both the office of Governor and that of Secretary of State, the law shall provide which of the Secretaries shall serve as Governor.
(8) When for any reason the Governor is temporarily unable to perform his functions, the Secretary of State shall substitute for him during the period he is unable to serve. If for any reason the Secretary of State is not available, the Secretary determined by law shall temporarily hold the office of Governor…