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How To Register To Vote Under 18

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How Preregistration Works

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

Preregistration states vary in terms of their registration age limits. Some allow 16-year-olds to preregister, and others let 17-year-olds to preregister. The remaining preregistration states do non establish a specific preregistration age limit. Instead, these states allow youth to register to vote before the age of 18, provided that they will be of voting age by the time of the next general election. See the section on Voter Registration Ages below for more than information.

Some states also allow 17-yr-olds to vote in primary elections, provided that they will turn 18 before 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

  • xv states + Washington, D.C., let preregistration get-go at xvi years old:
    • 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 starting time at 17 years quondam:
    • Maine, Nevada, New Bailiwick of jersey and West Virginia.
  • five states set another age at which an private may preregister:
    • Alaska permits those under 18 to register anytime inside xc days before their 18th altogether.
    • Georgia, Iowa and Missouri permit 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 annals.
  • 25 states do not specifically address an age for registration and instead permit an individual to register if they will turn 18 by the next ballot (note that this usually refers to the adjacent general election, with some exceptions). In some states this may mean that youth could annals every bit presently equally the previous general election is over, so that could be as early as 16 years of age. Reach out to your state 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, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
  • Northward Dakota does not crave individuals to annals prior to the election, just to qualify as an elector an private must be eighteen years or older on Election Day.

More than details in Tabular array 1 below.

Legislative Considerations

  • Turnout. The statement 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 one selection to appoint young voters in the electoral process. A serial of studies have shown the preregistration has a positive effect on youth turnout:
  • Logistics. Since preregistered youth may motility between preregistration and their first chance to vote, these registrations may no longer be accurate and valid. States may need to send notifications to preregistered voters once they turn xviii to confirm the registration and address information. There may likewise need to be updates or additions to the statewide voter registration database in order to enter preregistrations and track this information.
  • Cost. Costs may exist 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 significant.
  • Identification. Younger voters may non 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 take place? Does the state need to work with the section of motor vehicles or with high schools?
  • Protected data. Consider whether information for preregistered voters should be protected and non provided on publicly available voter lists.
  • Education and outreach. How do get the word out that this option is available and achieve out to potential immature voters?

Table 1: State Statutes on Registration

STATE

SUMMARY

STATUTORY LANGUAGE

Alabama

Const. of Ala. Commodity 8

Voter Registration FAQs

eighteen by the ballot

Every citizen of the United states who has attained the age of xviii years and has resided in this state and in a county thereof for the time provided by law, if registered as provided by police, shall have the right to vote in the canton of his or her residence.

Alaska

As §fifteen.07.040

Within 90 days preceding 18th altogether

A person who is qualified under Every bit xv.05.010(1)--(three) is entitled to register at whatever time throughout the year except that a person under 18 years of age may register at any time within 90 days immediately preceding the person'south 18th birthday.

Arizona

A.R.S. § sixteen-101

18 past the election

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

2. Will be 18 years of historic period or more on or before the appointment of the regular general ballot side by side following his registration.

Arkansas

AR Const. Art. three, § i

Voter Registration Data

18 past the ballot

Except every bit otherwise provided by this Constitution, whatever person may vote in an election in this country who is:

(one) A citizen of the United States;

(2) A resident of the Country of Arkansas;

(three) At to the lowest degree eighteen (18) years of age; and

(4) Lawfully registered to vote in the ballot.

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 age and otherwise meets all eligibility requirements to vote may submit his or her affidavit of registration as prescribed by this department. A properly executed affidavit of registration made pursuant to this subdivision shall be deemed effective equally of the date the affiant will exist 18 years of age, if the information in the affidavit of registration is still current at that time. If the information provided by the affiant in the affidavit of registration is not current at the fourth dimension that the affidavit 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 every bit prescribed by this chapter.

Colorado

Colo. Rev. Stat. §1-2-101(2)(a)(I)

(Enacted by HB 1135 in 2013)

16-year-olds may preregister

Nonetheless subsection (1) of this department, upon satisfactory proof of age, every person who is otherwise qualified to register and is sixteen years of historic period or older just will not have reached eighteen years of historic period by the appointment of the next election may preregister and update his or her preregistered information past any 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.

§ nine-12

18 by the election

(b) Any citizen who will take attained the historic period of xviii years on or before the twenty-four hours of a regular election may apply for admission every bit an elector. If such citizen is found to be qualified the citizen shall become an elector on the 24-hour interval of the citizen'due south eighteenth birthday. The registrars shall add together the name of any person applying nether this subsection, if found qualified, to the registry listing and, if applicable, to the enrollment list, together with the effective appointment of his registration. The registrars may place the proper noun of each such person at the end of the registry and enrollment lists for the voting district.

Delaware

fifteen Del. Code § 1701(b)

(Enacted by HB 381 in 2010)

16-year-olds may preregister

 (b) The Section shall allow registration of whatsoever citizen and bona fide resident of this State 16 years of age or older through the Division of Motor Vehicles as set along in § 2050(a) of this title, provided that such applicant shall not exist a qualified voter unless the person will exist eighteen years of age or older on or before the day of the general election next succeeding the applicant'south registration.

District of Columbia

D.C. Code § 1-1001.07(a-two)

(Enacted in 2009)

16-year-olds may preregister

A person who is otherwise qualified may pre-register on or later that person's 16th birthday and may vote in any ballot occurring on or after that person's 17th birthday; provided, that the person is at least 18 years of age on or before the next general election.

Florida

Fla. Stat. § 97.041(b)

(Enacted past SB 866 in 2008)

xvi-yr-olds may preregister

A person who is otherwise qualified may preregister on or after that person'southward 16th birthday and may vote in any election occurring on or after that person's 18th birthday.

Georgia

Ga. Lawmaking Ann. § 21-2-216(c)

17.five-year-olds may preregister

(c) Whatsoever person who possesses the qualifications of an elector except that apropos age shall be permitted to register to vote if such person volition larn such qualification within half-dozen months after the twenty-four hour period of registration; provided, nevertheless, that such person shall not be permitted to vote in a principal or election until the acquisition of all specified qualifications.

Hawaii

HRS §eleven-12

(Enacted by SB 280 in 1993)

xvi-yr-olds may preregister, and 17-year-olds may register just not vote

(a) Every person who has reached the age of eighteen years or who is seventeen years of historic period and volition exist eighteen years of historic period by the date of the next election, and is otherwise qualified to register may exercise so for that election. The person shall then exist listed upon the advisable county general register and precinct list. No person shall register or vote in whatever 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 to the lowest degree sixteen years of historic period but will not be 18 years of age by the engagement of the side by side ballot may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall exist automatically registered upon reaching age eighteen.

Idaho

Idaho Lawmaking § 34-402

18 by the election

Every male or female citizen of the United States, eighteen (18) years erstwhile, who has resided in this state and in the county for 30 (30) days where he or she offers to vote prior to the day of election, if registered within the time menstruum provided by law, is a qualified elector.

Illinois

ten ILCS five/3-vi

xviii by the ballot

For the purposes of this Code, an private who is 17 years of age and who will be xviii years of age on the date of the general or consolidated election shall be deemed competent to execute and attest to any voter registration forms.

Indiana

Ind. Code §3-7-13-1

18 past the election

A person who:

(1) will exist at to the lowest degree eighteen (18) years of age at the next full general, municipal, or special ballot;

(ii) is a U.s. citizen; and

(3) resides in a precinct continuously before a general, municipal, or special election for at to the lowest degree xxx (xxx) days;

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

Iowa

Iowa Lawmaking Election Laws §48A.v(2)

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

17.five-year-olds may preregister

two. To be qualified to annals to vote an eligible elector shall:

c. (1) Be at least 18 years of age.  However, for purposes of voting in the primary election, an eligible elector shall be at least eighteen years of age on the date of the respective general election or city ballot. Completed registration forms shall be accepted from registrants who are at least seventeen years of age. For an election other than a chief election, the registration shall non be effective until the registrant reaches the age of xviii. The commissioner of registration shall ensure that the birth appointment shown on the registration course is at least seventeen years earlier than the date the registration is candy.

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

Kansas

Kan. Rev. Stat. §25-2306

18 past the election

The awarding for registration shall include a statement by the applicant that he will have reached the age of eighteen (18) years earlier the side by side statewide general election. No person may vote at whatsoever election until he has reached the age of eighteen (eighteen) years.

Kentucky

Ky. Rev. Stat.

§116.045, §116.055

xviii by the ballot.

Ky. Rev. Stat. §116.045(1) Any person may annals equally a voter during the flow 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 engagement of the primary, without regard to the qualifications or disqualifications equally they may exist at the succeeding regular election, except that minors seventeen (17) years of age who will become eighteen (18) years of age on or earlier the day of the regular election shall be entitled to vote in the primary if otherwise qualified.

Louisiana

Louis. Rev. Stat.

18:101 A(iii)

(Enacted by HB 501 in 2014)

xvi-year-olds may preregister

(3) A person who is xvi years of age may register to vote in the manner provided in R.South. 18:114(B)(1) or by making application in person at the office of the registrar of voters. However, no one under the age of 18 years shall exist permitted to vote in any election

Maine

21- M.R.S.A. §155

17-year-olds may preregister

The registrar shall conditionally have the registration and enrollment of any person who is 17 years of age and who is otherwise qualified to be a voter. The conditional registration automatically becomes effective on the person'south 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 age may vote by absentee election at any ballot if that person attains 18 years of age on or before the date of the ballot and is otherwise eligible to vote by absentee ballot.

Maryland

MD Elec. Law §3-102

(Enacted by HB 217 in 2010)

xvi-year-olds may preregister

(a)(i) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an individual may become registered to vote if the individual:

(i) is a citizen of the Usa;

(ii) is at least xvi years old;

(iii) is a resident of the State as of the day the individual seeks to register; and

(four) registers pursuant to this title.

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection, an private under the historic period of 18 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 least xviii years old; and

(two) may not vote in any other ballot.

Massachusetts

Thousand.G.50.A. 51 § 42

M.K.L.A. 51 § 47A

16-year-olds may preregister

M.Thousand.L.A. 51 § 42. Registration every bit a voter shall be past affidavit of registration made in conformity with the requirements of this chapter by any person at least sixteen years of historic period or older.

One thousand.M.L.A. 51 § 47A. If, later on 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, and so they shall enter the person's proper noun in the electric current annual register of voters with the designation "pre-registrant" or other term or lawmaking equally specified by the state secretary. The designation shall be removed when the person, on or before the day of the side by side preliminary, master, special or full general ballot or town meeting, attains full age. No pre-registrant shall exist immune to vote until the pre-registrant obtains total historic period unless otherwise permitted past law.

Michigan

1000.C.L.A. 168.492

How to Annals to Vote

18 by the election

Each person who has the following qualifications of an elector, or who will have those qualifications at the adjacent ballot or master election, is entitled to register as an elector in the township, urban center, or village in which he or she resides. The person shall be a citizen of the U.s.a.; non less than 18 years of historic period; a resident of the land for not less than 30 days; and a resident of the township, urban center, or hamlet on or earlier the thirtieth twenty-four hours earlier the side by side regular or special election or principal ballot.

Minnesota

Minn. Stat. Ann. §201.071

eighteen by the election

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

"I certify that I:

(i) will exist at least 18 years former on election day…

The certification must include boxes for the voter to answer to the post-obit questions:

"(1) Are you a citizen of the United states of america?" and

"(2) Will you exist eighteen years old on or before ballot day?"…

Mississippi

Miss. Lawmaking Ann. § 23-15-11

18 past the election

Every inhabitant of this country, except persons adjudicated to be non compos mentis, who is a citizen of the United States of America, eighteen (18) years old and upwards… Whatever person who will exist eighteen (eighteen) years of age or older on or before the engagement of the general election and who is duly registered to vote non less than thirty (30) days before the primary election associated with the full general election, may vote in the primary ballot even though the person has not reached his or her eighteenth birthday at the fourth dimension that the person seeks to vote at the primary election. No others than those specified in this section shall exist entitled, or shall be immune, to vote at any election.

Missouri

Mo. Rev. Stat §115.133(i)

(Enacted by HB 23 in 1993)

17.5-year-olds may preregister

Except equally provided in subsection ii of this department, any citizen of the United states who is a resident of the State of Missouri and seventeen years and six months of historic period or older shall be entitled to register and to vote in any election which is held on or after his eighteenth birthday.

Montana

MCA 13-two-205

18 by the election

An private who is not eligible to annals because of residence or age requirements merely who volition be eligible on or before election twenty-four hours may apply for voter registration pursuant to 13-2-110 and be registered subject to verification procedures established pursuant to 13-ii-109.

Nebraska

Nib. Rev. Stat §32-110

eighteen by the election

Elector shall mean a denizen of the United States whose residence is within the state and who is at to the lowest degree eighteen years of age or is seventeen years of historic period and will reach the age of eighteen years on or before the first Tuesday later the outset Monday in November of the then current agenda year.

Nevada

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

17-year-olds may preregister

Every citizen of the United States who is 17 years of age or older but less than xviii years of age and has continuously resided in this State for 30 days or longer may preregister to vote by any of the ways available for a person to annals to vote pursuant to this title. A person eligible to preregister to vote is deemed to exist preregistered to vote upon the submission of a completed awarding to preregister to vote.

New Hampshire

NH RSA 654:7

18 by the election

I. Whatsoever person registering to vote shall exist:

(a) At least 18 years of age on the day of the next election; and

New Jersey

NJ R.South. nineteen:31-5

(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 18 years or more on or before the first election in which he or she expects to vote, who is a citizen of the Usa, and who, if he or she continues to reside in the district until that election, will at the time accept fulfilled all the requirements equally to length of residence to qualify him or her every bit a legal voter, shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be entitled to be 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'due south 18th altogether

New Mexico

Due north. Thousand. Stat. Ann. § 1-iv-2

18 past the ballot

A. Whatsoever resident of New Mexico who volition be a qualified elector at the date of the next ensuing general ballot shall exist permitted within the provisions of the Ballot Code to register and get a voter.

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

New York

McKinney's Election Police § five-210, § 5-507

sixteen-year-olds may preregister

Department 5-507. Voter pre-registration and education on voter pre-registration. 1. Pre-registration. A person who is at least 16 years of age 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 past this chapter.

North Carolina

N.C.K.S.A. § 163-82.1

Note: Pre-registration was removed by HB 589 in 2013. That police was subsequently 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.

16-year-olds may preregister

(d) Preregistration. --A person who is at least sixteen years of age simply volition not be 18 years of age by the appointment of the adjacent election and who is otherwise qualified to register may preregister to vote and shall be automatically registered upon reaching the age of eligibility following verification of the person'due south qualifications and address in accordance with G.Southward. 163-82.7.

North Dakota

N.D. Cent. Code § 16.1-01-04

18 at election

North Dakota does non have voter registration, just:

ane. To qualify as an elector of this land, an private must be:

a. A citizen of the U.s.a.;

b. Eighteen years or older; and

c. A resident of this state who has resided in the precinct at least thirty days immediately preceding whatsoever ballot.

Ohio

OH Rev. Code §3503.01

18 past the election

(A) Every citizen of the United States who is of the age of xviii 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 county 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, § one

26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103

18 by the election

OK Const. Art. 3, § 1. Subject to such exceptions every bit the Legislature may prescribe, all citizens of the United States, over the historic period of eighteen (xviii) years, who are bona fide residents of this state, are qualified electors of this state.

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

Oregon

ORS §247.016

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

16-year-olds may preregister

(1) Bailiwick to this section, an otherwise qualified person who is at least sixteen years of age may register to vote.

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

(iii) If a person who registers to vote under subsection (1) of this section will be under 18 years of age on the date of the adjacent election held on a date listed in ORS 171.185 or the adjacent special ballot, the person's voter registration data, including but not express to the person'southward name and any identifying information, may not exist disclosed equally a public record under ORS 192.410 to 192.505.

Pennsylvania

25 Pa.C.S.A. § 1301

18 by the election

(a) Eligibility.--An private who volition be at least 18 years of age on the day of the adjacent election, who has been a citizen of the United States for at to the lowest degree one calendar month prior to the next election and who has resided in this Republic and the election district where the individual offers to vote for at least xxx days prior to the side by side ensuing election and has non been confined in a penal institution for a conviction of a felony within the last 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 will be 18 past the ballot

(a) Every person who has reached the age of 18 (18) years or who is seventeen (17) years of age and will be eighteen (18) years of age by the appointment of the adjacent election, and is otherwise qualified to register may do so for that ballot.

(b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at least sixteen (16) years of historic period, but will non be eighteen (18) years of age by the date of the next ballot, may preregister upon satisfactory proof of historic period and shall exist automatically registered upon reaching 18 (18) years of age.

South Carolina

S.C. Code § 7-five-120

S.C. Const. Art. 2, § four

South Carolina Voter Registration Information

18 by the election

(A) Every citizen of this State and the U.s. who applies for registration must be registered if he meets the following qualifications:

(ane) meets the age qualification as provided in Section four, Article Ii of the Constitution of this Land;

Due south.C. Const. Fine art. II, § 4. Every denizen of the Us and of this State of the age of eighteen and upwardly who is properly registered is entitled to vote every bit provided by police force.

South Dakota

SDCL § 12-3-i

SDCL § 12-iv-1

xviii by the election

SDCL § 12-3-1. Every person resident of this land who shall exist of the age of eighteen years and upwards, not otherwise disqualified, who shall have complied with the provisions of law relating to the registration of voters shall be entitled to vote at any ballot in this state.

SDCL § 12-iv-1. Every person residing inside the state who has the qualifications of a voter prescribed by § 12-3-1 or 12-3-1.i, or who volition have such qualifications at the side by side ensuing municipal, chief, general, or school commune election, shall be entitled to be registered as a voter in the voting precinct in which he resides.

Tennessee

Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-two-104

eighteen by the election

The following persons may annals permanently under this title: (three) A person who will be xviii (18) years of age on or earlier the date of the next election after the person applies to register and who is otherwise eligible to register.

Texas

Tex. El. Code Ann § 13.001

Individuals 17 years and 10 months old may register

(b) To be eligible to apply for registration, a person must, on the engagement 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 age.

Utah

UT Lawmaking 20A-2-101.1

16-twelvemonth-olds may preregister

(i) An private may preregister to vote if the private:

(a) is 16 or 17 years of age;

(b) will not be eighteen years of age before the side by side election;

(c) is a citizen of the Usa;

(d) has been a resident of Utah for at to the lowest degree thirty days; and

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

(2) An individual described in Subsection (1) may non vote in an election and is non registered to vote until:

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

(b) the county clerk registers the individual to vote under Subsection (4).

Vermont

17 V.S.A. § 2121

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(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 day:

(ane) is a citizen of the United States;

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

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

(four) is 18 years of age or more.

(b) Whatever person meeting the requirements of subdivisions (a)(i)-(3) of this section who volition be xviii years of age on or before the appointment of a general election may register and vote in the primary election immediately preceding that full general election.

Virginia

VA Lawmaking Ann. § 24.2-403.i

16-year-olds may preregister

Whatever person who is otherwise qualified and is 16 years of age or older, simply who will non be 18 years of age on or earlier the day of the next full general election, may preregister to vote.

Washington

Rev. Code of Launder. 29A.08.230

*Effective July 1, 2019 Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.170 will allow 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 following adjuration:

"I declare that the facts on this voter registration class are true. I am a citizen of the United States, I will have lived at this address in Washington for at least 30 days immediately before the next election at which I vote, I will be at least eighteen years one-time when I vote, I am not disqualified from voting due to a courtroom order, and I am not under department of corrections supervision for a Washington felony confidence."

West Virginia

West. Va. Code §iii-ii-2

17-yr-olds may preregister

(a) Whatever person who possesses the constitutional qualifications for voting may annals to vote. To be qualified, a person must exist a citizen of the United States and a legal resident of West Virginia and of the county where he or she is applying to register, shall be at least eighteen years of age, except that a person who is at to the lowest degree seventeen years of age and who will be eighteen years of historic period by the fourth dimension of the next ensuing general ballot may likewise exist permitted to annals, and shall non exist otherwise legally disqualified: Provided, That a registered voter who has non reached xviii 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 eighteen years of historic period past the time of the corresponding general election.

Wisconsin

Wis. Stat. Ann. §vi.05

18 by the election

Whatever person who will exist 18 years quondam on or before election day is entitled to vote if the person complies with this chapter.

Wyoming

Wyo. Stat. §22-3-102

xviii by the ballot

(a) A person may register to vote not less than fourteen (14) days before an ballot, at any ballot specified in W.S. 22-two-101(a)(i) through (viii) or as provided by Due west. S. 22-3-117, who satisfies the following qualifications:

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

(ii) He will be at least eighteen (18) years of age on the 24-hour interval of the side by side full general election provided he shall non exist permitted to vote until he has attained the age of 18 (18);

Boosted Resources

  • NCSL's 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 Cognition All Together At present: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement
  • Voting Age for Master Elections

How To Register To Vote Under 18,

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

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