Article 2 states:
(1) The right to elect shall be possessed by the citizens of Turkmenistan who, by the date of elections, have attained to the age of 18 years.
(2) Any direct or indirect restrictions on voting rights of the citizens of Turkmenistan on the grounds of nationality, origin, property status and official position, place of residence, sex, language, education, relation to religion, political convictions, party affiliation or the lack thereof, shall be forbidden.
(3) Persons not participating in the elections shall be those mentally diseased, or admitted by court legally incapable, as well as persons being kept by sentence of the court in institutions of confinement and those in respect of whom preventive punishment measure of holding in custody was applied in accordance with the procedure established by law.
Article 2, section 3 states:
Persons not participating in the elections shall be those mentally diseased, or admitted by court legally incapable, as well as persons being kept by sentence of the court in institutions of confinement and those in respect of whom preventive punishment measure of holding in custody was applied in accordance with the procedure established by law.
Article 40, section 1 states:
The elector who is unable to be available at place of residence on the day of elections (departure for a business trip, vacation, referral to health institution) shall have right to forward in advance his declaration of will in respect of the standing presidential candidates to the election committee of the precinct.