General Right to Vote
Constitution
(6 November 1994)
• Article 27 states, "Each citizen has the right, directly or through representatives, to participate in political life and in the governing of the state. Each citizen has equal rights to government service. Each citizen, upon reaching 18 years of age, has the right to elect and be elected. Persons who are declared by a court to be incompetent or who are being detained in prison by the verdict of a court do not have the right to participate in elections or referenda. Elections and referenda are carried out on the basis of general, equal, and direct voting rights by secret ballot"

Exclusion Based on Mental Disability
Constitution:
(6 November 1994)
• Article 27 states: "…Every citizen has the right to elect or to be elected from the age of 18. Citizens deemed incompetent by a court or who have been deprived of liberty in accordance with a court sentence do not have the right to take part in elections and referenda."
Electoral Law:
(1994: Elections to Presidency)
• Article 2 states: "Citizens of the Republic of Tajikistan who have reached the age of 18 may participate in voting for the president of the Republic of Tajikistan. The following persons may not participate in voting for the president of the Republic of Tajikistan: persons who have been found mentally incompetent by a court…"

Off-Site Voting Alternatives
Electoral Law:
(1999: Elections to the Majlisi Oli)
• Article 42, paragraph (6) states, "A voter shall fill in the ballot-paper no other persons shall be present except for the voter. A voter who unable fill in a ballot-paper by himself has a right to invite another person to the polling booths or room on his/her discretion except members of the election commission, observers, media representatives."
(1994: Elections to Presidency)
• Article 30, paragraph(5) states: "In the event that individual voters, due to problems with their health or other reasons, are unable to come to the building for voting, the Polling Place Electoral Commission at the voter's request may assign no fewer than two members of the Commission to organize the voting at the place where the voters are located."