General Right to Vote
Constitution
(2008)

• Article 32 states, “Citizens have the right to elect and be elected to organs of state power.”
• Article 89 states, “Elections of the Turkmenistan President, the Mejlis, the members of people’s councils and gengeshes are universal and equal. Citizens of Turkmenistan who have reached the age of eighteen years possess the right to elect.”

Electoral Law
On Presidential Elections in Turkmenistan
(2006)

• Article 2, section 1 states, “The right to elect shall be possessed by citizens of Turkmenistan who, by the date of elections, have attained the age of 18 years.”

On Elections of Deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistein
(1994, as amended 2004)

• Article 2, paragraph 1 states, “Citizens of Turkmenistan who will have reached the age of 18 by the polling day shall have the right to vote.”

Law of Turkmenistan on Elections of Members of Gengeshes
(YEAR)

• Article 2, paragraph 1 states, “Elections of members of gengeshes shall be universal. Citizens of Turkmenistan who will have reached the age of 18 by election day shall have the right to vote.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(2008)

• Article 89 states, “Not participating in elections are citizens the court recognizes as incompetent...”

Electoral Law
On Presidential Elections in Turkmenistan
(2006)

• Article 2, section 3 states, “Persons not participating in the elections shall be those mentally diseased, or admitted by court as legally incapable...”

On Elections of Deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan
(1994, as amended 2004)

• Article 2, paragraph 3 states, “Persons suffering from mental disorder or recognised by a court as incapable, persons deprived of their freedom by sentence of a court...shall not participate in elections.”

Law of Turkmenistan on Elections of Members of Gengeshes
(2005)

• Article 2, paragraph 3 states, “Persons suffering from mental disorder, recognised by a kazyet as incapable, persons held in places of deprivation of freedom by a sentence of a kazyet, and persons held in detention as a preventative measure in accordance with legislation shall not participate in elections.”

Exclusion Based on Physical Disability
Constitution
(2008)

• Article 51 states, “The President of Turkmenistan may...know the state language.”

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
On Presidential Elections in Turkmenistan
(2006)

• Article 39, section 1 states, “The elector who is unable to fill out the ballot paper himself shall have the right to invite to the polling booth or room another person at his own discretion, except for the members of the election committee, representatives of political parties, public associations, meetings of the electors, state authority, mass media, fiduciaries of the candidate, international and national observers.

On Elections of Deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan
(1994, as amended 2004)

• Article 40, paragraph 1 states, “A voter who is unable to fill out the ballot paper by him/herself shall have the right to invite into the polling booth or room another person of his/her own choice but excluding members of the election commission, representatives of political parties and public associations, meetings of voters, state authorities, mass media, proxies of candidates for deputy, international and domestic observers.”

Law of Turkmenistan on Elections of Members of Gengeshes
(2005)

• Article 36, paragraph 1 states, “A voter who is unable to fill out the ballot paper by him/herself shall have the right to invite into the polling booth or room another person of his/her own choice but excluding members of the election commission, representatives of political parties and public associations, proxies of candidates for member of the gengesh and observers.”

Off-Site Voting
Electoral Law
On Presidential Elections in Turkmenistan
(2006)

• Article 11, section 2 states, “In military units, sanatoriums and holiday centers, in-patient health facilities...precincts/electoral areas may be formed, which shall be part of constituencies by their place of location.”
• Article 38, section 5 states, “In cases where individual electors are unable, by reason of medical condition or other reasons, to appear in the premises for voting, the election committee of the precinct shall, upon request thereof, commit individual committee members with organization of voting at the place of stay of these electors.”
• Article 40, section 1 states, “The elector who is unable to be available at place of residence on the day of elections (departure for business trip, vacation, referral to health institution) shall have the right to forward in advance his declaration of will in respect of the standing presidential candidates to the election committee of the precinct.”

On Elections of Deputies of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan
(1994, as amended 2004)

• Article 11, paragraph 2 states, “Electoral precincts may be formed in military units, sanatoriums and rest homes, stationary establishments for medical treatment...which precincts shall form part of the electoral district in which they are located.”
• Article 41, paragraph 1 states, “A voter who is unable to be at his/her place of residence on polling day (away on a business trip, on vacation, or for medical treatment) shall have the right to convey to the precinct election commission in advance an expression of his/her will regarding candidates for deputy of the Mejlis who are standing for election.”

Law of Turkmenistan on Elections of Members of Gengeshes
(2005)

• Article 35, paragraph 6 states, “In cases where particular voters are unable to come to the polling station owing to the state of their health or other reasons, at their request the precinct election commission shall authorize particular members of the commission to organize voting at the place of such voter’s location.”
• Article 37, paragraph 1 states, “A voter who is unable to be at his/her place of residence on polling day (away on a business trip, on vacation, or for medical treatment) shall have the right to convey to the precinct election commission in advance an expression of his/her will regarding candidates for member of a gengesh who are standing for election.”

• Constitution (Russian) - http://www.turkmeninform.com/ru/blog/2008/10/08/0000147.htm
• All Electoral Laws - http://www.legislationline.org/topics/country/51/topic/6