General Right to Vote
Constitution
(1978)

• Section 90, subsection (1) states, "Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, any person who is registered under an Act of Parliament as an elector for Parliamentary elections in an electoral district is entitled to vote, in such manner as is prescribed, in an election of a member of Parliament for that district."

Electoral Law
Electoral Provisions (Parliament) Act
(1980, last amended 2008)

• Section 5, subsection (2) states, “Every person who is a citizen of Tuvalu and has attained the age of 18 years and who is not disqualified under the provisions of section 92 of the Constitution shall be entitled on application to be registered on the electoral register of his home island.”

Exclusion Based on Intellectual Disability
Constitution
(1978)

• Section 92, subsection (1) states: "A person is not entitled to be registered as an elector in Parliamentary elections if... (b) he is certified to be insane, or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind, under an Act of Parliament..."
• Section 95, subsection (1) states: "A person is not qualified to be elected as a member of Parliament if... (b) he is certified to be insane, or otherwise adjudged to be of unsound mind, under an Act of Parliament..."

Voter Assistance
Electoral Law
Electoral Provisions (Parliament) Act
(1980, last amended 2008)

• Section 21, subsection (1), part (h) states, “If an elector by reason of illiteracy, or of blindness or other phsycial 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 except for polling agents if they so desire, the name of the candidate for whom he wishes to vote and the presiding officer shall record the elector’s vote by marking the elector’s ballot paper according to the elector’s instructions and placing the marked ballot paper in the ballot box relating to the electoral district in which such elector is registered.”

• Constitution - http://www.tuvaluislands.com/const_tuvalu.htm
• Electoral Provisions (Parliament) Act - http://tuvalu-legislation.tv/cms/images/LEGISLATION/PRINCIPAL/1980/1980-0002/ElectoralProvisionsParliamentAct_1.pdf