Can I Register To Vote If The Primary Has Passed?
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How Preregistration Works
Preregistration is an election procedure that allows individuals younger than 18 years of age to annals to vote, so they are eligible to cast a ballot when they reach 18, the voting age for all state and federal elections. Typically, a pre-registrant volition fill out an awarding and be added to the voter registration listing with a "pending" or "preregistration" condition. Upon turning 18, the individual is added to the voter registration list and able to bandage a ballot.
Preregistration states vary in terms of their registration historic period limits. Some allow 16-year-olds to preregister, and others allow 17-yr-olds to preregister. The remaining preregistration states do not constitute a specific preregistration age limit. Instead, these states permit youth to register to vote before the historic period of 18, provided that they will be of voting age by the time of the next general ballot. Run across the section on Voter Registration Ages below for more than information.
Some states also permit 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections, provided that they will plough xviii earlier the general ballot. FairVote provides data on states that allow 17-twelvemonth-olds to vote in congressional primaries and presidential primaries or caucuses.
State Voter Registration Ages
- xv states + Washington, D.C., permit preregistration beginning at 16 years onetime:
- California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Isle, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
- 4 states permit preregistration beginning at 17 years former:
- Maine, Nevada, New Jersey and West Virginia.
- 5 states ready another age at which an private may preregister:
- Alaska permits those under 18 to annals someday within 90 days before their 18th birthday.
- Georgia, Iowa and Missouri let registration of those who are 17.v (if they turn 18 before the adjacent ballot).
- Texas permits a person who is 17 years and x months of age to annals.
- 25 states exercise non specifically address an age for registration and instead allow an individual to annals if they volition turn eighteen by the next election (note that this usually refers to the next general election, with some exceptions). In some states this may mean that youth could register every bit soon as the previous general election is over, so that could be as early equally 16 years of age. Reach out to your country election officials for details.
- Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Southward Carolina, S Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
- N Dakota does not crave individuals to register prior to the ballot, merely to authorize as an elector an private must be xviii years or older on Election 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 i option to engage immature voters in the balloter process. A series of studies have shown the preregistration has a positive result on youth turnout:
- Logistics. Since preregistered youth may move between preregistration and their start chance to vote, these registrations may no longer be accurate and valid. States may need to send notifications to preregistered voters once they plow eighteen 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 order to enter preregistrations and runway this information.
- Price. Costs may exist a factor; implementation in Colorado was estimated at $572,112 in 2013. Additionally, the cost of returned mailings to this mobile population tin be significant.
- Identification. Younger voters may not take a driver'due south license, so what identification is required in order to preregister? Is an affidavit signed by a parent sufficient?
- Location. Where should preregistration take place? Does the state need to work with the department of motor vehicles or with high schools?
- Protected data. Consider whether information for preregistered voters should be protected and not provided on publicly available voter lists.
- Educational activity and outreach. How do become the word out that this pick is available and reach out to potential young voters?
| Land | SUMMARY | STATUTORY LANGUAGE |
|---|---|---|
| Alabama Const. of Ala. Article 8 Voter Registration FAQs | 18 by the election | Every citizen of the United States who has attained the historic period of eighteen years and has resided in this land and in a county thereof for the fourth dimension provided past law, if registered equally provided past law, shall take the right to vote in the canton of his or her residence. |
| Alaska AS §15.07.040 | Within 90 days preceding 18th birthday | A person who is qualified under AS 15.05.010(1)--(3) is entitled to register at any time throughout the year except that a person under eighteen years of historic period may register at any time within 90 days immediately preceding the person's 18th birthday. |
| Arizona A.R.S. § sixteen-101 | eighteen by the election | A. Every resident of the state is qualified to register to vote if he: 2. Will be 18 years of age or more than on or earlier the date of the regular full general election next following his registration. |
| Arkansas AR Const. Art. 3, § ane Voter Registration Data | xviii by the election | Except every bit otherwise provided by this Constitution, any person may vote in an election in this state who is: (ane) A citizen of the United States; (2) A resident of the State of Arkansas; (iii) At least eighteen (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-year-olds may preregister | A person who is at least 16 years of historic period and otherwise meets all eligibility requirements to vote may submit his or her affirmation of registration as prescribed by this department. A properly executed affirmation of registration made pursuant to this subdivision shall exist deemed constructive every bit of the date the affiant will exist xviii years of age, if the information in the affidavit of registration is still current at that fourth dimension. If the information provided past the affiant in the affidavit of registration is not electric current at the time that the affidavit of registration would otherwise become constructive, 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. §ane-2-101(2)(a)(I) (Enacted by HB 1135 in 2013) | sixteen-yr-olds may preregister | Still subsection (i) of this section, upon satisfactory proof of age, every person who is otherwise qualified to register and is sixteen years of historic period or older just volition not have reached xviii years of age by the date of the adjacent ballot may preregister and update his or her preregistered information past whatever means authorized in this article for persons eighteen years of age or older. Upon reaching eighteen years of age, the person is automatically registered. |
| Connecticut Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann. § 9-12 | xviii by the ballot | (b) Any citizen who volition take attained the age of eighteen years on or before the day of a regular election may use for admission as an elector. If such denizen is plant to be qualified the denizen shall get an elector on the day of the citizen'due south eighteenth birthday. The registrars shall add together the name of whatever person applying under this subsection, if found qualified, to the registry listing and, if applicative, to the enrollment list, together with the effective date of his registration. The registrars may identify the name of each such person at the finish of the registry and enrollment lists for the voting district. |
| Delaware fifteen Del. Code § 1701(b) (Enacted by HB 381 in 2010) | sixteen-year-olds may preregister | (b) The Department shall allow registration of whatsoever citizen and bona fide resident of this Country sixteen years of historic period or older through the Division of Motor Vehicles equally set along in § 2050(a) of this title, provided that such applicant shall not exist a qualified voter unless the person will be xviii years of historic period or older on or before the day of the general ballot next succeeding the applicant's registration. |
| District of Columbia D.C. Code § i-1001.07(a-2) (Enacted in 2009) | 16-year-olds may preregister | A person who is otherwise qualified may pre-annals on or after that person's 16th birthday and may vote in whatsoever election occurring on or after that person'southward 17th altogether; provided, that the person is at least 18 years of historic period on or earlier the next general ballot. |
| Florida Fla. Stat. § 97.041(b) (Enacted by SB 866 in 2008) | 16-year-olds may preregister | A person who is otherwise qualified may preregister on or afterwards that person'southward 16th birthday and may vote in whatever ballot occurring on or after that person's 18th birthday. |
| Georgia Ga. Code Ann. § 21-2-216(c) | 17.v-twelvemonth-olds may preregister | (c) Any person who possesses the qualifications of an elector except that concerning age shall exist permitted to annals to vote if such person will acquire such qualification within six months later the 24-hour interval of registration; provided, still, that such person shall non be permitted to vote in a master or election until the conquering of all specified qualifications. |
| Hawaii HRS §11-12 (Enacted by SB 280 in 1993) | 16-year-olds may preregister, and 17-twelvemonth-olds may annals but non vote | (a) Every person who has reached the age of 18 years or who is seventeen years of age and will be eighteen years of age by the date of the next election, and is otherwise qualified to register may practice so for that election. The person shall then be listed upon the appropriate county general annals and precinct list. No person shall register or vote in whatsoever other precinct than that in which the person resides except as provided in section xi-21. (b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at least sixteen years of age but volition not exist xviii years of age by the appointment of the next election may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall be automatically registered upon reaching age eighteen. |
| Idaho Idaho Code § 34-402 | xviii by the election | Every male or female person citizen of the Usa, xviii (18) years quondam, who has resided in this country and in the county for thirty (30) days where he or she offers to vote prior to the twenty-four hour period of election, if registered within the time flow provided by law, is a qualified elector. |
| Illinois ten ILCS 5/3-half dozen | eighteen by the election | For the purposes of this Code, an individual who is 17 years of age and who will be 18 years of age on the date of the general or consolidated election shall exist deemed competent to execute and attest to any voter registration forms. |
| Indiana Ind. Lawmaking §three-seven-13-1 | 18 by the election | A person who: (i) will be at least 18 (18) years of age at the next full general, municipal, or special election; (2) is a U.s.a. citizen; and (3) resides in a precinct continuously before a general, municipal, or special election for at least thirty (thirty) days; may, upon making a proper application nether this commodity, register to vote in that precinct. |
| Iowa Iowa Code Election Laws §48A.5(2) (Originally enacted by SF 2194 in 2010, amended by HF 516 in 2017) | 17.5-year-olds may preregister | ii. To be qualified to annals to vote an eligible elector shall: c. (i) Be at least xviii years of age. Still, for purposes of voting in the primary election, an eligible elector shall exist at to the lowest degree eighteen years of age on the engagement of the respective general ballot or metropolis election. Completed registration forms shall be accustomed from registrants who are at least seventeen years of age. For an election other than a primary election, the registration shall not be effective until the registrant reaches the age of eighteen. The commissioner of registration shall ensure that the birth appointment shown on the registration form is at least seventeen years earlier than the date the registration is processed. (2) A registrant who is at to the lowest degree seventeen years of age and who volition be 18 past the date of a awaiting election is a registered voter for the pending election for purposes of affiliate 53. For purposes of voting in a chief election nether chapter 43, a registrant who will be at to the lowest degree eighteen years of age past the date of the respective general ballot or city election is a registered voter for the pending primary election. |
| Kansas Kan. Rev. Stat. §25-2306 | 18 past the election | The application for registration shall include a statement by the applicant that he will have reached the age of 18 (eighteen) years before the side by side statewide general election. No person may vote at any election until he has reached the historic period of xviii (18) years. |
| Kentucky Ky. Rev. Stat. §116.045, §116.055 | 18 past the election. | Ky. Rev. Stat. §116.045(1) Any person may register as a voter during the period registration is open if he or she possesses, or will possess on the day of the side by side regular election, the qualifications gear up forth in KRS 116.025. Ky. Rev. Stat. § 116.055… The qualifications shall be adamant as of the appointment of the primary, without regard to the qualifications or disqualifications as they may be at the succeeding regular ballot, except that minors seventeen (17) years of age who will get eighteen (18) years of age on or earlier the mean solar day of the regular election shall be entitled to vote in the master if otherwise qualified. |
| Louisiana Louis. Rev. Stat. 18:101 A(three) (Enacted by HB 501 in 2014) | sixteen-year-olds may preregister | (3) A person who is xvi years of age may register to vote in the style provided in R.S. 18:114(B)(1) or by making application in person at the office of the registrar of voters. However, no ane under the age of eighteen years shall be permitted to vote in whatsoever election |
| Maine 21- K.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 historic period and who is otherwise qualified to be a voter. The conditional registration automatically becomes effective on the person'southward 18th birthday and the registrant then is eligible to vote. A person who has registered under this department and who has not attained 18 years of historic period may vote by absentee election at any election if that person attains 18 years of age on or earlier the date of the election and is otherwise eligible to vote past absentee ballot. |
| Maryland MD Elec. Constabulary §iii-102 (Enacted by HB 217 in 2010) | xvi-year-olds may preregister | (a)(i) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an private may become registered to vote if the individual: (i) is a citizen of the Usa; (2) is at least 16 years old; (iii) is a resident of the Country as of the day the individual seeks to register; and (iv) registers pursuant to this title. (ii) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection, an individual under the age of xviii years: (i) may vote in a primary ballot in which candidates are nominated for a full general or special election that will occur when the individual is at to the lowest degree 18 years old; and (ii) may non vote in whatsoever other election. |
| Massachusetts Chiliad.One thousand.Fifty.A. 51 § 42 M.K.L.A. 51 § 47A | sixteen-year-olds may preregister | M.G.L.A. 51 § 42. Registration equally a voter shall be by affirmation of registration fabricated in conformity with the requirements of this chapter by whatsoever person at to the lowest degree 16 years of age or older. Thousand.One thousand.Fifty.A. 51 § 47A. If, later on examination of an affirmation of registration, it 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, then they shall enter the person'southward name in the electric current annual register of voters with the designation "pre-registrant" or other term or lawmaking as specified past the land secretary. The designation shall be removed when the person, on or before the twenty-four hours of the next preliminary, primary, special or general election or town meeting, attains full historic period. No pre-registrant shall exist immune to vote until the pre-registrant obtains total historic period unless otherwise permitted past law. |
| Michigan M.C.L.A. 168.492 How to Register to Vote | 18 by the ballot | Each person who has the post-obit qualifications of an elector, or who will accept those qualifications at the next ballot or primary election, is entitled to register as an elector in the township, metropolis, or hamlet in which he or she resides. The person shall exist a citizen of the United States; non less than 18 years of age; a resident of the state for non less than 30 days; and a resident of the township, city, or village on or before the thirtieth day before the adjacent regular or special election or primary ballot. |
| Minnesota Minn. Stat. Ann. §201.071 | xviii past the election | The application must also comprise the post-obit certification of voter eligibility: "I certify that I: (1) volition exist at least 18 years old on ballot twenty-four hours… The certification must include boxes for the voter to respond to the following questions: "(1) Are y'all a citizen of the United States?" and "(two) Will you exist eighteen years old on or before election mean solar day?"… |
| Mississippi Miss. Code Ann. § 23-fifteen-11 | 18 past the ballot | Every inhabitant of this state, except persons adjudicated to be non compos mentis, who is a citizen of the United states of america of America, eighteen (18) years former and upwards… Whatever person who will be eighteen (18) years of age or older on or earlier the appointment of the general election and who is duly registered to vote not less than thirty (30) days before the primary election associated with the general election, may vote in the primary election even though the person has not reached his or her eighteenth altogether at the time that the person seeks to vote at the primary election. No others than those specified in this section shall be entitled, or shall exist immune, to vote at whatsoever election. |
| Missouri Mo. Rev. Stat §115.133(1) (Enacted by HB 23 in 1993) | 17.5-twelvemonth-olds may preregister | Except as provided in subsection two of this department, any citizen of the U.s.a. who is a resident of the State of Missouri and seventeen years and six months of historic period or older shall be entitled to annals and to vote in any election which is held on or after his eighteenth altogether. |
| Montana MCA 13-2-205 | 18 by the ballot | An individual who is non eligible to register because of residence or age requirements merely who will exist eligible on or before election 24-hour interval may utilise for voter registration pursuant to 13-2-110 and be registered bailiwick to verification procedures established pursuant to 13-2-109. |
| Nebraska Neb. Rev. Stat §32-110 | 18 by the election | Elector shall mean a citizen of the United states of america whose residence is within the state and who is at least eighteen years of age or is seventeen years of age and will attain the age of 18 years on or earlier the first Tuesday afterward the first Monday in Nov of the so current agenda year. |
| Nevada Nev. Rev. Stat. 293.524 (Enacted past SB 144 in 2017) | 17-year-olds may preregister | Every citizen of the Usa who is 17 years of age or older but less than 18 years of age and has continuously resided in this State for 30 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 654:7 | 18 by the election | I. Any person registering to vote shall exist: (a) At to the lowest degree 18 years of historic period on the 24-hour interval of the next ballot; and |
| New Bailiwick of jersey NJ R.Southward. 19:31-5 (Enacted by SB 832 in 2015) | 17-twelvemonth-olds may preregister | Each person, who is at to the lowest degree 17 years of age at the time he or she applies for registration, who resides in the district in which he or she expects to vote, who will be of the age of 18 years or more on or before the first election in which he or she expects to vote, who is a citizen of the United States, and who, if he or she continues to reside in the commune until that election, will at the time have fulfilled all the requirements equally to length of residence to qualify him or her as a legal voter, shall, unless otherwise disqualified, exist entitled to exist registered in such district. Each 17-year-old registrant shall be designated in the Statewide voter registration system as temporarily ineligible to vote until the registrant's 18th birthday |
| New Mexico Due north. Thou. Stat. Ann. § 1-four-two | 18 by the ballot | A. Any resident of New Mexico who will be a qualified elector at the appointment of the next ensuing full general election shall be permitted within the provisions of the Election Code 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 election and registers to vote in accordance with the provisions of Subsection A of this section, for the purposes of the primary election, that person shall exist considered to be a voter and may vote in the main election immediately preceding that general ballot. |
| New York McKinney's Ballot Police force § 5-210, § 5-507 | 16-year-olds may preregister | Section 5-507. Voter pre-registration and education on voter pre-registration. 1. Pre-registration. A person who is at to the lowest degree sixteen years of historic period and who is otherwise qualified to register to vote may pre-register to vote, and shall be automatically registered upon reaching the age of eligibility equally provided by this chapter. |
| North Carolina Northward.C.G.S.A. § 163-82.1 Note: Pre-registration was removed past HB 589 in 2013. That constabulary was later struck down by the 4th U.S. Courtroom of Appeals, leaving xvi-year-olds able to preregister according to the North Carolina Board of Elections webpage. | xvi-year-olds may preregister | (d) Preregistration. --A person who is at to the lowest degree 16 years of age only will not be 18 years of age by the date of the next election and who is otherwise qualified to register may preregister to vote and shall exist automatically registered upon reaching the historic period of eligibility following verification of the person'south qualifications and address in accord with Thou.Southward. 163-82.7. |
| N Dakota N.D. Cent. Lawmaking § sixteen.i-01-04 | 18 at election | Northward Dakota does not have voter registration, but: 1. To qualify as an elector of this state, an private must be: a. A citizen of the Us; b. Eighteen years or older; and c. A resident of this state who has resided in the precinct at least xxx days immediately preceding any election. |
| Ohio OH Rev. Code §3503.01 | 18 by the ballot | (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 denizen offers to vote, is a resident of the county and precinct in which the citizen offers to vote, and has been registered to vote for xxx days, has the qualifications of an elector and may vote at all elections in the precinct in which the citizen resides. |
| Oklahoma OK Const. Fine art. 3, § 1 26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103 | xviii by the election | OK Const. Fine art. three, § 1. Discipline to such exceptions as the Legislature may prescribe, all citizens of the Us, over the age of eighteen (18) years, who are bona fide residents of this state, are qualified electors of this land. 26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103. Whatsoever person who will become a qualified elector during the 60 (sixty) days earlier the next ensuing election at which he could vote shall exist entitled to go a registered voter of the precinct of his or her residence not more sixty (60) and not less than twenty-four (24) days prior to said ballot. |
| Oregon ORS §247.016 (Originally enacted past HB 2910 in 2007. SB 802 in 2017 reduced preregistration historic period from 17 to 16). | xvi-year-olds may preregister | (ane) Subject field to this section, an otherwise qualified person who is at least 16 years of historic period may register to vote. (2) A person who registers to vote under subsection (1) of this section 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 section will exist under 18 years of age on the date of the adjacent election held on a date listed in ORS 171.185 or the next special election, the person's voter registration information, including but not limited to the person'due south name and any identifying information, may not be disclosed as a public record under ORS 192.410 to 192.505. |
| Pennsylvania 25 Pa.C.S.A. § 1301 | eighteen by the election | (a) Eligibility.--An private who will exist at least xviii years of historic period on the solar day of the next election, who has been a citizen of the Usa for at least i month prior to the next election and who has resided in this Commonwealth and the ballot district where the individual offers to vote for at least 30 days prior to the adjacent ensuing election and has not been confined in a penal establishment for a conviction of a felony within the last 5 years shall be eligible to annals equally provided in this chapter. |
| Rhode Isle RI Gen. Laws §17-9.1-33 | 16-year-olds may preregister, and 17-twelvemonth-olds may register if they will exist 18 by the ballot | (a) Every person who has reached the age of eighteen (xviii) years or who is seventeen (17) years of age and will be eighteen (xviii) years of age by the date of the next ballot, and is otherwise qualified to register may do then for that ballot. (b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at to the lowest degree sixteen (16) years of age, only will not be eighteen (xviii) years of historic period by the engagement of the next election, may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall be automatically registered upon reaching eighteen (xviii) years of age. |
| South Carolina Due south.C. Code § seven-v-120 Due south.C. Const. Art. Two, § 4 South Carolina Voter Registration Information | 18 by the election | (A) Every citizen of this State and the Us who applies for registration must be registered if he meets the post-obit qualifications: (1) meets the age qualification as provided in Section four, Article 2 of the Constitution of this Country; S.C. Const. Art. II, § 4. Every citizen of the United States and of this State of the historic period of xviii and upwards who is properly registered is entitled to vote as provided by constabulary. |
| South Dakota SDCL § 12-three-1 SDCL § 12-iv-1 | 18 by the election | SDCL § 12-iii-1. Every person resident of this land who shall exist of the age of 18 years and upwards, not otherwise disqualified, who shall have complied with the provisions of police force relating to the registration of voters shall exist entitled to vote at whatsoever election in this state. SDCL § 12-4-1. Every person residing inside the land who has the qualifications of a voter prescribed by § 12-3-one or 12-three-1.1, or who will have such qualifications at the side by side ensuing municipal, master, general, or schoolhouse district election, shall be entitled to be registered every bit a voter in the voting precinct in which he resides. |
| Tennessee Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-2-104 | 18 past the election | The post-obit persons may register permanently under this title: (three) A person who will be eighteen (18) years of age on or earlier the date of the next ballot after the person applies to register and who is otherwise eligible to annals. |
| Texas Tex. El. Lawmaking Ann § xiii.001 | Individuals 17 years and 10 months one-time may register | (b) To be eligible to apply for registration, a person must, on the appointment the registration application is submitted to the registrar, be at least 17 years and 10 months of age and satisfy the requirements of Subsection (a) except for age. |
| Utah UT Code 20A-2-101.one | 16-year-olds may preregister | (one) An individual may preregister to vote if the individual: (a) is xvi or 17 years of age; (b) will not be xviii years of age before the side by side election; (c) is a citizen of the United States; (d) has been a resident of Utah for at least thirty days; and (e) currently resides within the voting district or precinct in which the private preregisters to vote. (ii) An individual described in Subsection (1) may non vote in an ballot and is not registered to vote until: (a) the individual is at least xviii years of age; and (b) the canton clerk registers the individual to vote under Subsection (four). |
| Vermont 17 Five.S.A. § 2121 | 18 past the election | (a) Whatsoever person may register to vote in the town of his or her residence in any election held in a political subdivision of this state in which he or she resides who, on election mean solar day: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) is a resident of the state of Vermont; (3) has taken the voter's oath; and (4) is 18 years of age or more. (b) Any person meeting the requirements of subdivisions (a)(1)-(3) of this section who will be 18 years of age on or before the date of a full general election may annals and vote in the primary ballot immediately preceding that full general election. |
| Virginia VA Code Ann. § 24.2-403.1 | 16-year-olds may preregister | Whatsoever person who is otherwise qualified and is 16 years of age or older, but who will non exist eighteen years of age on or before the day of the adjacent general ballot, may preregister to vote. |
| Washington Rev. Code of Launder. 29A.08.230 *Effective July 1, 2019 Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.170 will permit 16 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 post-obit adjuration: "I declare that the facts on this voter registration form are true. I am a citizen of the United States, I will take lived at this accost in Washington for at least thirty days immediately before the next election at which I vote, I volition be at least eighteen years quondam when I vote, I am non disqualified from voting due to a court order, and I am not under department of corrections supervision for a Washington felony conviction." |
| West Virginia W. Va. Lawmaking §iii-2-ii | 17-year-olds may preregister | (a) Any person who possesses the constitutional qualifications for voting may annals to vote. To exist qualified, a person must exist a citizen of the United States and a legal resident of Due west Virginia and of the county where he or she is applying to annals, shall exist at least eighteen years of age, except that a person who is at least seventeen years of age and who will be eighteen years of age by the time of the next ensuing general election may also exist permitted to register, and shall not exist otherwise legally butterfingers: Provided, That a registered voter who has not reached eighteen years of historic period may vote both partisan and nonpartisan ballots in a federal, state, county, municipal or special main election if he or she volition be eighteen years of historic period by the time of the corresponding general election. |
| Wisconsin Wis. Stat. Ann. §6.05 | 18 by the ballot | Any person who will exist 18 years quondam on or before ballot mean solar day is entitled to vote if the person complies with this chapter. |
| Wyoming Wyo. Stat. §22-3-102 | eighteen by the election | (a) A person may register to vote non less than 14 (14) days earlier an election, at whatever election specified in Due west.S. 22-ii-101(a)(i) through (viii) or as provided past Westward. Southward. 22-3-117, who satisfies the post-obit qualifications: (i) He is a citizen of the The states; (ii) He will be at least eighteen (18) years of age on the day of the next general election provided he shall not be permitted to vote until he has attained the age of eighteen (eighteen); |
Additional Resources
- NCSL'southward newsletter The Canvass article on increasing youth turnout
- Article in the Legislation and Public Policy Journal Registering the Youth Through Voter Preregistration
- Report from the Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Knowledge All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Appointment
- Voting Age for Primary Elections
Can I Register To Vote If The Primary Has Passed?,
Source: https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/preregistration-for-young-voters.aspx
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