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Do I Need To Register Every Year

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How Preregistration Works

Register to Vote! logoPreregistration is an election process that allows individuals younger than 18 years of age to register to vote, and so they are eligible to cast a election when they accomplish eighteen, the voting historic period for all land and federal elections. Typically, a pre-registrant will fill up out an application and be added to the voter registration list with a "pending" or "preregistration" condition. Upon turning 18, the private is added to the voter registration list and able to bandage a ballot.

Preregistration states vary in terms of their registration age limits. Some allow 16-twelvemonth-olds to preregister, and others allow 17-year-olds to preregister. The remaining preregistration states practice not establish a specific preregistration historic period limit. Instead, these states let youth to register to vote earlier the age of eighteen, provided that they will exist of voting historic period by the time of the next full general election. See the section on Voter Registration Ages below for more information.

Some states also permit 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections, provided that they will turn eighteen earlier the general election. FairVote provides information on states that permit 17-year-olds to vote in congressional primaries and presidential primaries or caucuses.

State Voter Registration Ages

  • 15 states + Washington, D.C., allow preregistration beginning at sixteen years onetime:
    • California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
  • iv states permit preregistration commencement at 17 years quondam:
    • Maine, Nevada, New Jersey and Due west Virginia.
  • 5 states set some other age at which an individual may preregister:
    • Alaska permits those nether 18 to register anytime inside ninety days before their 18th birthday.
    • Georgia, Iowa and Missouri let registration of those who are 17.5 (if they turn 18 before the next election).
    • Texas permits a person who is 17 years and 10 months of age to register.
  • 25 states do not specifically address an historic period for registration and instead allow an individual to register if they volition turn 18 by the next election (note that this ordinarily refers to the next general election, with some exceptions). In some states this may hateful that youth could annals as soon as the previous general election is over, so that could be equally early every bit sixteen years of historic period. Reach out to your land ballot officials for details.
    • Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Southward Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
  • North Dakota does not require individuals to annals prior to the election, only to qualify as an elector an private must be eighteen years or older on Ballot Day.

More details in Table 1 below.

Legislative Considerations

  • Turnout. The argument for implementing preregistration policies has to do with increasing youth turnout. Turnout among 18 to 29-year-olds is consistently lower than other age brackets, so states looking to preregistration as ane option to engage young voters in the electoral process. A series of studies take shown the preregistration has a positive issue on youth turnout:
  • Logistics. Since preregistered youth may motion betwixt preregistration and their first chance to vote, these registrations may no longer be accurate and valid. States may need to transport notifications to preregistered voters in one case they turn xviii to confirm the registration and address information. At that place may also need to be updates or additions to the statewide voter registration database in lodge to enter preregistrations and rails this information.
  • Toll. Costs may be a cistron; implementation in Colorado was estimated at $572,112 in 2013. Additionally, the cost of returned mailings to this mobile population tin can be pregnant.
  • Identification. Younger voters may not have a driver's license, so what identification is required in order to preregister? Is an affidavit signed by a parent sufficient?
  • Location. Where should preregistration have place? Does the land need to piece of work with the department of motor vehicles or with high schools?
  • Protected information. Consider whether information for preregistered voters should be protected and non provided on publicly bachelor voter lists.
  • Education and outreach. How practice get the give-and-take out that this option is available and reach out to potential young voters?

Table 1: Country Statutes on Registration

Land

SUMMARY

STATUTORY LANGUAGE

Alabama

Const. of Ala. Commodity Viii

Voter Registration FAQs

18 by the election

Every denizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years and has resided in this state and in a county thereof for the fourth dimension provided by constabulary, if registered as provided by constabulary, shall have the right to vote in the county of his or her residence.

Alaska

As §xv.07.040

Within 90 days preceding 18th birthday

A person who is qualified nether As 15.05.010(ane)--(3) is entitled to register at any time throughout the year except that a person under xviii years of age may register at whatever time inside 90 days immediately preceding the person's 18th altogether.

Arizona

A.R.S. § 16-101

eighteen by the election

A. Every resident of the state is qualified to annals to vote if he:

two. Will exist eighteen years of age or more than on or before the engagement of the regular full general election next following his registration.

Arkansas

AR Const. Fine art. 3, § 1

Voter Registration Information

18 past the election

Except as otherwise provided by this Constitution, any person may vote in an ballot in this land who is:

(1) A citizen of the U.s.a.;

(2) A resident of the Country of Arkansas;

(3) At least 18 (eighteen) years of age; and

(4) Lawfully registered to vote in the election.

California

CA Elec. Code §2102(2)(d)

(Enacted by SB 113 in 2014)

16-twelvemonth-olds may preregister

A person who is at least 16 years of age and otherwise meets all eligibility requirements to vote may submit his or her affidavit of registration as prescribed past this section. A properly executed affidavit of registration fabricated pursuant to this subdivision shall be deemed effective as of the appointment the affiant will be 18 years of age, if the information in the affidavit of registration is all the same current at that fourth dimension. If the information provided past the affiant in the affidavit of registration is not current at the time that the affirmation of registration would otherwise become effective, for his or her registration to become effective, the affiant shall provide the current information to the proper county elections official as prescribed by this chapter.

Colorado

Colo. Rev. Stat. §1-two-101(2)(a)(I)

(Enacted past HB 1135 in 2013)

16-year-olds may preregister

Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, upon satisfactory proof of age, every person who is otherwise qualified to register and is xvi years of age or older but will not accept reached eighteen years of age by the appointment of the next ballot may preregister and update his or her preregistered information by any means authorized in this article for persons eighteen years of historic period or older. Upon reaching eighteen years of historic period, the person is automatically registered.

Connecticut

Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann.

§ 9-12

18 by the election

(b) Any citizen who will have attained the age of 18 years on or before the day of a regular election may apply for admission as an elector. If such citizen is found to be qualified the citizen shall become an elector on the mean solar day of the citizen's eighteenth birthday. The registrars shall add together the proper noun of any person applying nether this subsection, if found qualified, to the registry list and, if applicative, to the enrollment list, together with the effective date of his registration. The registrars may place the name of each such person at the end of the registry and enrollment lists for the voting district.

Delaware

15 Del. Code § 1701(b)

(Enacted by HB 381 in 2010)

xvi-year-olds may preregister

 (b) The Department shall permit registration of any citizen and bona fide resident of this State 16 years of age or older through the Division of Motor Vehicles as set forth in § 2050(a) of this title, provided that such bidder shall not be a qualified voter unless the person volition be eighteen years of historic period or older on or before the twenty-four hour period of the general election next succeeding the applicant's registration.

District of Columbia

D.C. Lawmaking § one-1001.07(a-2)

(Enacted in 2009)

16-year-olds may preregister

A person who is otherwise qualified may pre-register on or after that person'due south 16th altogether and may vote in any election occurring on or after that person's 17th birthday; provided, that the person is at to the lowest degree xviii years of age on or earlier the next general election.

Florida

Fla. Stat. § 97.041(b)

(Enacted by SB 866 in 2008)

16-yr-olds may preregister

A person who is otherwise qualified may preregister on or after that person'southward 16th birthday and may vote in whatever ballot occurring on or afterwards that person'due south 18th birthday.

Georgia

Ga. Lawmaking Ann. § 21-2-216(c)

17.v-year-olds may preregister

(c) Any person who possesses the qualifications of an elector except that concerning age shall exist permitted to register to vote if such person will learn such qualification within six months afterward the day of registration; provided, however, that such person shall not be permitted to vote in a chief or election until the acquisition of all specified qualifications.

Hawaii

HRS §xi-12

(Enacted past SB 280 in 1993)

sixteen-year-olds may preregister, and 17-yr-olds may annals merely non vote

(a) Every person who has reached the age of eighteen years or who is seventeen years of historic period and will be 18 years of age by the appointment of the adjacent election, and is otherwise qualified to register may do so for that election. The person shall then exist listed upon the appropriate canton general register and precinct list. No person shall register or vote in any other precinct than that in which the person resides except as provided in section 11-21.

(b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at least sixteen years of age but will not be 18 years of historic period by the date of the adjacent ballot may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall be automatically registered upon reaching historic period eighteen.

Idaho

Idaho Lawmaking § 34-402

18 by the election

Every male person or female citizen of the Us, eighteen (eighteen) years former, who has resided in this state and in the canton for thirty (thirty) days where he or she offers to vote prior to the twenty-four hour period of election, if registered within the time period provided by law, is a qualified elector.

Illinois

x ILCS 5/three-6

eighteen by the election

For the purposes of this Code, an individual who is 17 years of age and who volition be eighteen years of age on the date of the general or consolidated election shall be deemed competent to execute and adjure to any voter registration forms.

Indiana

Ind. Code §iii-7-13-1

18 past the election

A person who:

(1) will exist at least 18 (18) years of age at the next general, municipal, or special ballot;

(2) is a United States citizen; and

(three) resides in a precinct continuously before a full general, municipal, or special ballot for at least thirty (30) days;

may, upon making a proper application under this article, register to vote in that precinct.

Iowa

Iowa Code Election Laws §48A.five(two)

(Originally enacted past SF 2194 in 2010, amended by HF 516 in 2017)

17.v-twelvemonth-olds may preregister

two. To exist qualified to register to vote an eligible elector shall:

c. (1) Be at least 18 years of age.  Yet, for purposes of voting in the primary ballot, an eligible elector shall exist at least eighteen years of age on the engagement of the respective full general ballot or city election. Completed registration forms shall exist accustomed from registrants who are at to the lowest degree seventeen years of age. For an election other than a chief ballot, the registration shall non be effective until the registrant reaches the historic period of eighteen. The commissioner of registration shall ensure that the birth date shown on the registration grade is at least seventeen years earlier than the engagement the registration is candy.

 (2) A registrant who is at least seventeen years of historic period and who volition be eighteen by the appointment of a pending election is a registered voter for the pending ballot for purposes of chapter 53. For purposes of voting in a primary election under chapter 43, a registrant who will be at to the lowest degree 18 years of historic period by the engagement of the corresponding general ballot or metropolis election is a registered voter for the pending primary election.

Kansas

Kan. Rev. Stat. §25-2306

18 by the election

The application for registration shall include a argument by the applicant that he will accept reached the age of eighteen (18) years before the next statewide general election. No person may vote at any election until he has reached the age of eighteen (18) years.

Kentucky

Ky. Rev. Stat.

§116.045, §116.055

18 by the election.

Ky. Rev. Stat. §116.045(1) Whatsoever person may register as a voter during the menses registration is open if he or she possesses, or volition possess on the day of the next regular ballot, the qualifications ready along in KRS 116.025.

Ky. Rev. Stat. § 116.055… The qualifications shall be determined as of the date of the primary, without regard to the qualifications or disqualifications as they may exist at the succeeding regular ballot, except that minors seventeen (17) years of age who volition get eighteen (18) years of age on or before the day of the regular ballot shall be entitled to vote in the primary if otherwise qualified.

Louisiana

Louis. Rev. Stat.

xviii:101 A(3)

(Enacted by HB 501 in 2014)

16-year-olds may preregister

(three) A person who is sixteen years of age may register to vote in the manner provided in R.S. eighteen:114(B)(one) or by making application in person at the office of the registrar of voters. However, no i under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted to vote in whatsoever ballot

Maine

21- M.R.Southward.A. §155

17-year-olds may preregister

The registrar shall conditionally accept the registration and enrollment of any person who is 17 years of age and who is otherwise qualified to exist a voter. The conditional registration automatically becomes effective on the person's 18th birthday and the registrant then is eligible to vote. A person who has registered under this section and who has not attained 18 years of age may vote by absentee election at whatsoever election if that person attains 18 years of age on or before the date of the election and is otherwise eligible to vote by absentee ballot.

Maryland

MD Elec. Police force §iii-102

(Enacted by HB 217 in 2010)

sixteen-year-olds may preregister

(a)(one) Except equally provided in subsection (b) of this department, an individual may become registered to vote if the private:

(i) is a citizen of the United States;

(ii) is at least 16 years erstwhile;

(three) is a resident of the Land as of the 24-hour interval the individual seeks to annals; and

(4) registers pursuant to this championship.

(two) Nonetheless paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection, an individual nether the age of 18 years:

(i) may vote in a primary election in which candidates are nominated for a general or special election that will occur when the individual is at least 18 years old; and

(two) may non vote in any other election.

Massachusetts

M.G.L.A. 51 § 42

M.G.L.A. 51 § 47A

16-twelvemonth-olds may preregister

M.G.L.A. 51 § 42. Registration as a voter shall be past affidavit of registration made in conformity with the requirements of this chapter by any person at to the lowest degree 16 years of age or older.

K.Thousand.L.A. 51 § 47A. If, later exam of an affidavit of registration, information technology appears to the registrars that the person has all the qualifications to be registered as a voter except that of age and the person has obtained the age of 16, so they shall enter the person's proper name in the current almanac register of voters with the designation "pre-registrant" or other term or code as specified by the state secretary. The designation shall be removed when the person, on or earlier the day of the next preliminary, master, special or general election or town coming together, attains full historic period. No pre-registrant shall exist allowed to vote until the pre-registrant obtains total age unless otherwise permitted past law.

Michigan

K.C.L.A. 168.492

How to Annals to Vote

xviii by the election

Each person who has the following qualifications of an elector, or who will have those qualifications at the next ballot or chief election, is entitled to register equally an elector in the township, metropolis, or village in which he or she resides. The person shall be a citizen of the United States; not less than 18 years of age; a resident of the state for not less than 30 days; and a resident of the township, urban center, or hamlet on or earlier the thirtieth day before the next regular or special ballot or primary election.

Minnesota

Minn. Stat. Ann. §201.071

18 by the election

The application must also incorporate the following certification of voter eligibility:

"I certify that I:

(one) will be at least 18 years erstwhile on election mean solar day…

The certification must include boxes for the voter to answer to the following questions:

"(i) Are you a citizen of the The states?" and

"(2) Volition you lot be eighteen years old on or before election 24-hour interval?"…

Mississippi

Miss. Lawmaking Ann. § 23-15-11

18 by the election

Every inhabitant of this state, except persons adjudicated to be non compos mentis, who is a denizen of the United states of america, xviii (18) years sometime and upwards… Whatsoever person who volition be eighteen (18) years of age or older on or before the engagement of the full general ballot and who is duly registered to vote not less than thirty (xxx) days before the main ballot associated with the general ballot, may vote in the main election even though the person has not reached his or her eighteenth birthday at the time that the person seeks to vote at the primary ballot. No others than those specified in this section shall be entitled, or shall be immune, to vote at any election.

Missouri

Mo. Rev. Stat §115.133(1)

(Enacted by HB 23 in 1993)

17.five-year-olds may preregister

Except equally provided in subsection 2 of this section, whatever citizen of the United states of america who is a resident of the Country of Missouri and seventeen years and half dozen months of age or older shall exist entitled to register and to vote in any election which is held on or afterward his eighteenth altogether.

Montana

MCA 13-two-205

18 past the ballot

An private who is not eligible to annals because of residence or age requirements just who will be eligible on or earlier ballot 24-hour interval may apply for voter registration pursuant to 13-two-110 and be registered subject field to verification procedures established pursuant to 13-ii-109.

Nebraska

Pecker. Rev. Stat §32-110

18 by the election

Elector shall hateful a citizen of the Us whose residence is within the state and who is at least eighteen years of age or is seventeen years of historic period and will attain the age of 18 years on or before the first Tuesday after the first Mon in November of the and so electric current calendar yr.

Nevada

Nev. Rev. Stat. 293.524 (Enacted by SB 144 in 2017)

17-year-olds may preregister

Every denizen of the United states of america who is 17 years of age or older but less than 18 years of age and has continuously resided in this State for thirty days or longer may preregister to vote by whatever of the means available for a person to annals to vote pursuant to this title. A person eligible to preregister to vote is deemed to be preregistered to vote upon the submission of a completed application to preregister to vote.

New Hampshire

NH RSA 654:vii

xviii by the ballot

I. Whatever person registering to vote shall be:

(a) At to the lowest degree xviii years of historic period on the day of the next ballot; and

New Jersey

NJ R.Due south. 19:31-v

(Enacted by SB 832 in 2015)

17-yr-olds may preregister

Each person, who is at least 17 years of age at the time he or she applies for registration, who resides in the commune in which he or she expects to vote, who will be of the historic period of eighteen years or more on or earlier the start election in which he or she expects to vote, who is a citizen of the U.s., and who, if he or she continues to reside in the district until that election, will at the time accept fulfilled all the requirements every bit to length of residence to qualify him or her as a legal voter, shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be entitled to exist registered in such commune. Each 17-year-old registrant shall exist designated in the Statewide voter registration system as temporarily ineligible to vote until the registrant's 18th birthday

New United mexican states

Due north. Thousand. Stat. Ann. § 1-iv-ii

18 by the ballot

A. Any resident of New United mexican states who will be a qualified elector at the date of the next ensuing general election shall exist permitted inside the provisions of the Election Lawmaking to register and become a voter.

B. If a person who is seventeen years old will be a qualified elector on the day of the general ballot and registers to vote in accordance with the provisions of Subsection A of this department, for the purposes of the primary election, that person shall exist considered to be a voter and may vote in the principal election immediately preceding that general ballot.

New York

McKinney's Ballot Law § 5-210, § 5-507

16-year-olds may preregister

Department 5-507. Voter pre-registration and educational activity on voter pre-registration. one. Pre-registration. A person who is at least sixteen years of age and who is otherwise qualified to annals to vote may pre-annals to vote, and shall be automatically registered upon reaching the age of eligibility equally provided by this affiliate.

Northward Carolina

Due north.C.1000.S.A. § 163-82.1

Note: Pre-registration was removed by HB 589 in 2013. That law was later struck down by the fourth U.South. Court of Appeals, leaving sixteen-year-olds able to preregister according to the Northward Carolina Board of Elections webpage.

16-year-olds may preregister

(d) Preregistration. --A person who is at to the lowest degree xvi years of historic period simply will non be 18 years of age past the engagement of the next ballot and who is otherwise qualified to annals may preregister to vote and shall be automatically registered upon reaching the age of eligibility following verification of the person's qualifications and address in accordance with 1000.Southward. 163-82.vii.

North Dakota

N.D. Cent. Code § 16.1-01-04

18 at election

North Dakota does not have voter registration, merely:

1. To qualify every bit an elector of this country, an private must be:

a. A citizen of the The states;

b. Xviii years or older; and

c. A resident of this state who has resided in the precinct at to the lowest degree thirty days immediately preceding whatever election.

Ohio

OH Rev. Lawmaking §3503.01

eighteen by the election

(A) Every citizen of the United States who is of the age of 18 years or over and who has been a resident of the state xxx days immediately preceding the election at which the citizen offers to vote, is a resident of the canton and precinct in which the citizen offers to vote, and has been registered to vote for thirty days, has the qualifications of an elector and may vote at all elections in the precinct in which the citizen resides.

Oklahoma

OK Const. Art. 3, § 1

26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103

eighteen by the election

OK Const. Art. iii, § 1. Field of study to such exceptions as the Legislature may prescribe, all citizens of the The states, over the age of eighteen (18) years, who are bona fide residents of this state, are qualified electors of this state.

26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103. Whatsoever person who will become a qualified elector during the sixty (60) days before the adjacent ensuing election at which he could vote shall be entitled to become a registered voter of the precinct of his or her residence not more than threescore (sixty) and non less than xx-four (24) days prior to said election.

Oregon

ORS §247.016

(Originally enacted by HB 2910 in 2007. SB 802 in 2017 reduced preregistration age from 17 to 16).

16-year-olds may preregister

(1) Discipline to this section, an otherwise qualified person who is at least 16 years of historic period may annals to vote.

(two) A person who registers to vote nether subsection (1) of this department may not vote in an election until the person attains the age of 18 years.

(3) If a person who registers to vote nether subsection (1) of this department volition exist nether 18 years of age on the date of the next election held on a engagement listed in ORS 171.185 or the side by side special election, the person's voter registration information, including but not limited to the person'due south name and whatever identifying data, may non be disclosed as a public record under ORS 192.410 to 192.505.

Pennsylvania

25 Pa.C.S.A. § 1301

18 past the election

(a) Eligibility.--An individual who will exist at least 18 years of age on the day of the side by side ballot, who has been a citizen of the The states for at least i month prior to the next election and who has resided in this Commonwealth and the election district where the individual offers to vote for at least 30 days prior to the next ensuing election and has not been confined in a penal institution for a conviction of a felony within the terminal five years shall be eligible to register as provided in this chapter.

Rhode Island

RI Gen. Laws §17-9.1-33

16-year-olds may preregister, and 17-year-olds may register if they volition be 18 by the election

(a) Every person who has reached the age of eighteen (eighteen) years or who is seventeen (17) years of historic period and volition exist xviii (18) years of age past the appointment of the side by side election, and is otherwise qualified to register may practice so for that election.

(b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at least xvi (sixteen) years of age, but will not be eighteen (18) years of age by the engagement of the next election, may preregister upon satisfactory proof of historic period and shall be automatically registered upon reaching eighteen (xviii) years of age.

South Carolina

S.C. Code § 7-5-120

Due south.C. Const. Art. Two, § 4

South Carolina Voter Registration Data

18 by the election

(A) Every citizen of this State and the Usa who applies for registration must be registered if he meets the post-obit qualifications:

(1) meets the age qualification as provided in Section iv, Article Ii of the Constitution of this State;

Due south.C. Const. Art. Two, § 4. Every citizen of the United States and of this State of the age of 18 and upward who is properly registered is entitled to vote as provided by law.

South Dakota

SDCL § 12-3-1

SDCL § 12-4-1

18 by the election

SDCL § 12-three-1. Every person resident of this country who shall be of the age of eighteen years and upwards, not otherwise disqualified, who shall accept complied with the provisions of police force relating to the registration of voters shall exist entitled to vote at any election in this state.

SDCL § 12-iv-1. Every person residing within the state who has the qualifications of a voter prescribed past § 12-3-1 or 12-iii-i.1, or who will have such qualifications at the next ensuing municipal, principal, general, or school commune ballot, shall be entitled to be registered as a voter in the voting precinct in which he resides.

Tennessee

Tenn. Lawmaking Ann. § ii-two-104

xviii by the ballot

The following persons may register permanently nether this title: (3) A person who will be eighteen (18) years of age on or before the date of the next ballot subsequently the person applies to annals and who is otherwise eligible to register.

Texas

Tex. El. Code Ann § 13.001

Individuals 17 years and ten months onetime may register

(b) To be eligible to employ for registration, a person must, on the date the registration awarding is submitted to the registrar, be at least 17 years and 10 months of age and satisfy the requirements of Subsection (a) except for historic period.

Utah

UT Code 20A-2-101.1

16-yr-olds may preregister

(one) An individual may preregister to vote if the private:

(a) is sixteen or 17 years of age;

(b) volition not be eighteen years of historic period earlier the next election;

(c) is a citizen of the Us;

(d) has been a resident of Utah for at least 30 days; and

(e) currently resides within the voting district or precinct in which the individual preregisters to vote.

(ii) An individual described in Subsection (i) may not vote in an election and is non registered to vote until:

(a) the private is at least 18 years of age; and

(b) the canton clerk registers the individual to vote under Subsection (iv).

Vermont

17 5.S.A. § 2121

xviii by the election

(a) Whatever person may register to vote in the town of his or her residence in any election held in a political subdivision of this land in which he or she resides who, on election twenty-four hours:

(ane) is a citizen of the United States;

(2) is a resident of the land of Vermont;

(iii) has taken the voter's oath; and

(4) is 18 years of age or more.

(b) Any person meeting the requirements of subdivisions (a)(one)-(3) of this department who will be xviii years of historic period on or before the engagement of a general ballot may register and vote in the principal election immediately preceding that general election.

Virginia

VA Code Ann. § 24.2-403.1

16-year-olds may preregister

Whatever person who is otherwise qualified and is xvi years of age or older, just who will not be 18 years of age on or before the day of the next general election, may preregister to vote.

Washington

Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.230

*Constructive July 1, 2019 Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.170 will permit xvi and 17-year-olds to preregister.

18 before the election

Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.230. For all voter registrations, the registrant shall sign the following oath:

"I declare that the facts on this voter registration form are true. I am a citizen of the United states of america, I will have lived at this address in Washington for at least xxx days immediately before the next election at which I vote, I will be at least eighteen years quondam when I vote, I am not butterfingers from voting due to a court order, and I am non under department of corrections supervision for a Washington felony conviction."

W Virginia

W. Va. Code §three-2-2

17-yr-olds may preregister

(a) Any person who possesses the constitutional qualifications for voting may register to vote. To exist qualified, a person must be a citizen of the Usa and a legal resident of West Virginia and of the county where he or she is applying to register, shall exist at least eighteen years of historic period, except that a person who is at least seventeen years of age and who volition be eighteen years of age by the time of the side by side ensuing full general election may likewise be permitted to register, and shall non be otherwise legally disqualified: Provided, That a registered voter who has not reached eighteen years of age may vote both partisan and nonpartisan ballots in a federal, state, county, municipal or special primary ballot if he or she will exist xviii years of historic period by the time of the corresponding general election.

Wisconsin

Wis. Stat. Ann. §6.05

18 past the election

Any person who will be 18 years sometime on or earlier election day is entitled to vote if the person complies with this chapter.

Wyoming

Wyo. Stat. §22-3-102

18 by the election

(a) A person may register to vote non less than 14 (xiv) days before an ballot, at whatsoever ballot specified in Westward.Southward. 22-ii-101(a)(i) through (viii) or as provided past W. Due south. 22-iii-117, who satisfies the post-obit qualifications:

(i) He is a citizen of the United States;

(ii) He will be at to the lowest degree eighteen (18) years of age on the twenty-four hours of the next full general election provided he shall not exist permitted to vote until he has attained the historic period of 18 (eighteen);

Additional Resources

  • NCSL'south newsletter The Canvas article on increasing youth turnout
  • Commodity in the Legislation and Public Policy Periodical Registering the Youth Through Voter Preregistration
  • Report from the Commission on Youth Voting and Borough Knowledge All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Appointment
  • Voting Age for Chief Elections

Do I Need To Register Every Year,

Source: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/preregistration-for-young-voters.aspx

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