General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1995, last amended 2011)

• Article 33, section 2 states, “Citizens of the Republic shall have the right to elect and to be elected into public and local self-administrations as well as to participate in an all-nation referendum.”

Electoral Law
(1995, last amended 2011)

• Article 4, section 1 states, “Universal suffrage is the right of citizens of the Republic to take part in the voting at elections upon reaching the age of eighteen years old irrespective of his/her birth, origin, social, official and property status, sex, race, ethnic origin, language, relation to religion, belief and faith, place of residence or any other circumstance.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1995, last amended 2011)

• Article 33, section 3 states, “The right to elect and be elected in the all-nation referendum shall not extend to the citizens judged incapable by a court as well as those held in places of confinement on a court’s sentence.”

Electoral Law
(1995, last amended 2009)

• Article 4, section 3 states, “The citizens, who have been recognized by a court as legally incapable, including those kept in places of confinement under the court’s sentence, shall not take part in elections.”

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Constitution
(1995, last amended 2011)

• Article 41, section 2 states, "A citizen of the Republic shall be eligible for the office of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan if he...has a perfect command of the state language..."

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
(1995, last amended 2009)

• Article 42, section 1states, “The voter (elector) who does not have a possibility to independently fill in a ballot has the right to be assisted by a person whom he/she trusts. After voting, the surname of such a person will be written down in the electoral register next to the voter’s (elector’s) signature in confirmation of receiving a ballot...”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
(1995, last amended 2009)

• Article 25, section 1, part 3 states, “[shall include citizens]...in electoral districts to be formed in rest houses, health resorts, medioprophilactic institutions...who on the Election Day stay in the named institutions and organizations.”
• Article 41, section 6 states, “If some voters cannot come to the polling station for voting due to their state of health, owing to a need to nurse after an ill member of their family, including the voters staying in remote and difficult for access places where no elections stations were organized, the local election commission shall organize voting in the place of staying of such voters based on their written requests that shall be submitted not later than twelve hours before the ballot day by the local time.”

• Constitution - http://www.constcouncil.kz/eng/norpb/constrk/
• Elections Law - http://election.kz/portal/page?_pageid=153,75186&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL