General Right to Vote
Constitution:
(1980)
• Article 64, section (1) states, "Subject to the provisions of this section and of section 118 (3) of this Constitution, every person who (a) is a citizen of Kiribati; (b) has attained the age of 18 years; and (c) is a person resident within an electoral district established by or under this Constitution, shall be entitled to be registered as an elector in the electoral district in which he is resident, and when so registered to vote at an election of a member of the Maneaba ni Maungatabu for that electoral district."

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(1980)
• Section 56, subsection (1) states: "No person shall be qualified to be elected as an elected member of the Maneba ni Maungatabu [Legislature] who…(b) is in lawful detention by reason of his having been certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Kiribati…"
• Section 64, subsection (2) states: "Notwithstanding the preceding subsection no person who…(b) is certified to be insane or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind under any law in force in Kiribati…"

Voter Assistance by Other Citizens
Electoral Law:
(1979: Elections)
• Section 12, paragraph (g) states: "If an elector by reason of illiteracy, or of blindness or other physical disability, is unable to cast his vote, he shall call the presiding officer aside and tell him, no other person being present or within hearing, the name of the candidate or candidates for whom he wishes to vote, and the presiding officer shall record the elector's vote by marking the elector's ballot paper in accordance with the elector's wishes and placing the ballot paper so marked in the ballot box."