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Can 17 Year Olds Register To Vote Colorado

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How Preregistration Works

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

Preregistration states vary in terms of their registration age limits. Some allow sixteen-year-olds to preregister, and others allow 17-year-olds to preregister. The remaining preregistration states do not establish a specific preregistration historic period limit. Instead, these states allow youth to annals to vote before the historic period of 18, provided that they will exist of voting age past the time of the next general election. Encounter 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 18 before the general election. FairVote provides information on states that allow 17-year-olds to vote in congressional primaries and presidential primaries or caucuses.

State Voter Registration Ages

  • xv states + Washington, D.C., permit preregistration commencement at 16 years erstwhile:
    • California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
  • 4 states allow preregistration beginning at 17 years former:
    • Maine, Nevada, New Bailiwick of jersey and West Virginia.
  • 5 states set some other age at which an private may preregister:
    • Alaska permits those under 18 to register anytime within ninety days before their 18th birthday.
    • Georgia, Iowa and Missouri permit registration of those who are 17.5 (if they turn 18 before the side by side election).
    • Texas permits a person who is 17 years and x months of age to register.
  • 25 states do not specifically address an age for registration and instead allow an private to register if they will turn 18 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 annals equally soon as the previous full general election is over, so that could be every bit early as 16 years of historic period. Reach out to your land 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, Due south Carolina, Southward Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
  • Northward Dakota does not require individuals to annals prior to the ballot, but to qualify every bit an elector an individual must be eighteen years or older on Ballot Day.

More than details in Tabular array one beneath.

Legislative Considerations

  • Turnout. The argument for implementing preregistration policies has to do with increasing youth turnout. Turnout amidst 18 to 29-twelvemonth-olds is consistently lower than other age brackets, so states looking to preregistration equally 1 option to engage young voters in the electoral process. A series of studies have shown the preregistration has a positive upshot on youth turnout:
  • Logistics. Since preregistered youth may move between preregistration and their first adventure to vote, these registrations may no longer exist accurate and valid. States may demand to ship notifications to preregistered voters once they plough 18 to confirm the registration and address information. There may also need to exist updates or additions to the statewide voter registration database in gild to enter preregistrations and track this data.
  • Toll. Costs may be a factor; implementation in Colorado was estimated at $572,112 in 2013. Additionally, the toll of returned mailings to this mobile population can be significant.
  • Identification. Younger voters may non have a driver'southward license, so what identification is required in guild to preregister? Is an affirmation signed past a parent sufficient?
  • Location. Where should preregistration take identify? Does the land need to work with the section of motor vehicles or with high schools?
  • Protected information. Consider whether information for preregistered voters should exist protected and not provided on publicly available voter lists.
  • Education and outreach. How exercise become the discussion out that this selection is available and reach out to potential young voters?

Tabular array 1: Land Statutes on Registration

STATE

SUMMARY

STATUTORY Language

Alabama

Const. of Ala. Commodity VIII

Voter Registration FAQs

18 by the election

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

Alaska

Equally §15.07.040

Within 90 days preceding 18th birthday

A person who is qualified under As xv.05.010(1)--(iii) is entitled to register at whatsoever time throughout the year except that a person under eighteen years of age may register at any fourth dimension within 90 days immediately preceding the person'southward 18th birthday.

Arizona

A.R.S. § 16-101

18 by the election

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

2. Will be eighteen years of age or more on or before the date of the regular general election next following his registration.

Arkansas

AR Const. Art. iii, § 1

Voter Registration Information

18 by the ballot

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

(ane) A citizen of the United States;

(two) A resident of the State of Arkansas;

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

(iv) Lawfully registered to vote in the election.

California

CA Elec. Code §2102(two)(d)

(Enacted by SB 113 in 2014)

sixteen-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 affirmation of registration as prescribed by this section. A properly executed affidavit of registration fabricated pursuant to this subdivision shall exist deemed effective as of the date the affiant volition exist xviii years of age, if the data in the affidavit of registration is still current at that time. If the information provided by the affiant in the affirmation of registration is not current at the time that the affidavit of registration would otherwise become effective, for his or her registration to go constructive, the affiant shall provide the current data to the proper county elections official equally prescribed by this chapter.

Colorado

Colo. Rev. Stat. §1-2-101(2)(a)(I)

(Enacted past HB 1135 in 2013)

16-year-olds may preregister

Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this department, upon satisfactory proof of age, every person who is otherwise qualified to register and is sixteen years of age or older but will non have reached 18 years of age by the appointment of the next election may preregister and update his or her preregistered information by any means authorized in this article for persons eighteen years of age or older. Upon reaching 18 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 take attained the age of eighteen years on or before the day of a regular election may utilise for admission as an elector. If such citizen is found to be qualified the citizen shall become an elector on the day of the denizen's eighteenth birthday. The registrars shall add the name of any person applying under this subsection, if found qualified, to the registry list and, if applicable, to the enrollment listing, together with the effective date of his registration. The registrars may place the name of each such person at the finish of the registry and enrollment lists for the voting district.

Delaware

xv Del. Code § 1701(b)

(Enacted past HB 381 in 2010)

16-year-olds may preregister

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

District of Columbia

D.C. Code § i-1001.07(a-2)

(Enacted in 2009)

16-yr-olds may preregister

A person who is otherwise qualified may pre-annals on or afterwards that person'due south 16th altogether and may vote in whatsoever election occurring on or afterward that person'due south 17th birthday; provided, that the person is at to the lowest degree xviii years of age 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 after that person's 16th birthday and may vote in whatever election occurring on or after that person's 18th altogether.

Georgia

Ga. Lawmaking Ann. § 21-ii-216(c)

17.5-twelvemonth-olds may preregister

(c) Whatsoever person who possesses the qualifications of an elector except that concerning historic period shall exist permitted to register to vote if such person will acquire such qualification within 6 months after the solar day of registration; provided, withal, that such person shall not be permitted to vote in a primary or election until the acquisition of all specified qualifications.

Hawaii

HRS §11-12

(Enacted by SB 280 in 1993)

16-year-olds may preregister, and 17-year-olds may register but not vote

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

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

Idaho

Idaho Code § 34-402

18 past the election

Every male person or female citizen of the U.s., eighteen (eighteen) years old, who has resided in this country and in the county for thirty (xxx) days where he or she offers to vote prior to the day of election, if registered inside the time menstruation provided by police, is a qualified elector.

Illinois

10 ILCS five/3-6

18 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 accounted competent to execute and attest to any voter registration forms.

Indiana

Ind. Lawmaking §3-seven-thirteen-1

18 by the ballot

A person who:

(1) volition be at least eighteen (18) years of age at the next general, municipal, or special ballot;

(2) is a United States citizen; and

(3) resides in a precinct continuously before a general, municipal, or special ballot for at to the lowest degree thirty (30) days;

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

Iowa

Iowa Code Ballot Laws §48A.5(2)

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

17.5-twelvemonth-olds may preregister

ii. To be qualified to register to vote an eligible elector shall:

c. (1) Exist at to the lowest degree eighteen years of historic period.  All the same, for purposes of voting in the main election, an eligible elector shall be at least eighteen years of historic period on the appointment of the respective full general election or urban center ballot. Completed registration forms shall be accepted from registrants who are at least seventeen years of historic period. For an election other than a primary election, the registration shall non be effective until the registrant reaches the age of xviii. 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 age and who will be xviii by the date of a pending election is a registered voter for the pending election for purposes of affiliate 53. For purposes of voting in a principal election nether affiliate 43, a registrant who will be at to the lowest degree eighteen years of age by the date of the corresponding general ballot or urban center election is a registered voter for the pending principal election.

Kansas

Kan. Rev. Stat. §25-2306

18 by the election

The application 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 any election until he has reached the age of eighteen (18) years.

Kentucky

Ky. Rev. Stat.

§116.045, §116.055

xviii by the ballot.

Ky. Rev. Stat. §116.045(ane) Any person may register as a voter during the period registration is open up if he or she possesses, or will possess on the day of the next regular election, the qualifications prepare forth 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 every bit they may exist at the succeeding regular election, except that minors seventeen (17) years of age who will get xviii (eighteen) years of age on or earlier the twenty-four hour period of the regular election shall be entitled to vote in the primary if otherwise qualified.

Louisiana

Louis. Rev. Stat.

18:101 A(3)

(Enacted by HB 501 in 2014)

xvi-year-olds may preregister

(3) A person who is 16 years of age may register to vote in the style provided in R.S. 18:114(B)(one) or by making application in person at the office of the registrar of voters. However, no 1 under the age of eighteen years shall exist permitted to vote in whatever election

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 be a voter. The conditional registration automatically becomes effective on the person's 18th birthday and the registrant so is eligible to vote. A person who has registered nether this section and who has non attained eighteen years of historic period may vote by absentee ballot at any election if that person attains 18 years of age on or before the engagement of the election and is otherwise eligible to vote by absentee ballot.

Maryland

MD Elec. Police §3-102

(Enacted by HB 217 in 2010)

16-year-olds may preregister

(a)(1) Except every bit provided in subsection (b) of this section, an individual may become registered to vote if the individual:

(i) is a citizen of the United States;

(2) is at least 16 years old;

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

(four) registers pursuant to this title.

(ii) Withal paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection, an individual nether the age of eighteen 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 former; and

(ii) may not vote in whatsoever other election.

Massachusetts

One thousand.G.L.A. 51 § 42

M.Thou.L.A. 51 § 47A

16-year-olds may preregister

Thou.K.Fifty.A. 51 § 42. Registration as a voter shall be by affidavit of registration fabricated in conformity with the requirements of this affiliate by any person at to the lowest degree xvi years of age or older.

M.G.L.A. 51 § 47A. If, after examination of an affidavit of registration, it appears to the registrars that the person has all the qualifications to exist registered as a voter except that of historic period and the person has obtained the age of sixteen, then they shall enter the person's name in the current annual annals of voters with the designation "pre-registrant" or other term or lawmaking as specified by the state secretarial assistant. The designation shall be removed when the person, on or before the day of the next preliminary, principal, special or full general election or town meeting, attains full age. No pre-registrant shall be allowed to vote until the pre-registrant obtains full age unless otherwise permitted by law.

Michigan

M.C.Fifty.A. 168.492

How to Annals to Vote

eighteen past the ballot

Each person who has the following qualifications of an elector, or who volition accept those qualifications at the side by side election or primary election, is entitled to register equally an elector in the township, city, or hamlet in which he or she resides. The person shall be a citizen of the Us; not less than 18 years of age; a resident of the state for not less than 30 days; and a resident of the township, metropolis, or hamlet on or before the thirtieth day earlier the next regular or special election or primary election.

Minnesota

Minn. Stat. Ann. §201.071

18 by the election

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

"I certify that I:

(1) volition be at least xviii years old on ballot mean solar day…

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

"(ii) Will y'all be 18 years erstwhile on or earlier election day?"…

Mississippi

Miss. Lawmaking Ann. § 23-15-11

18 by the ballot

Every inhabitant of this land, except persons adjudicated to be non compos mentis, who is a citizen of the The states of America, eighteen (18) years old and upwardly… Any person who volition be 18 (18) years of age or older on or before the engagement of the general election and who is duly registered to vote not less than xxx (30) days earlier the master election associated with the general ballot, may vote in the primary election even though the person has not reached his or her eighteenth birthday at the time that the person seeks to vote at the main election. No others than those specified in this section shall be entitled, or shall be allowed, to vote at any election.

Missouri

Mo. Rev. Stat §115.133(1)

(Enacted by HB 23 in 1993)

17.5-year-olds may preregister

Except as provided in subsection 2 of this section, any denizen of the United States who is a resident of the State of Missouri and seventeen years and six months of age or older shall exist entitled to register and to vote in any election which is held on or after his eighteenth altogether.

Montana

MCA 13-two-205

18 by the election

An private who is not eligible to register because of residence or age requirements only who will exist eligible on or before election solar day may use for voter registration pursuant to thirteen-2-110 and be registered subject to verification procedures established pursuant to 13-2-109.

Nebraska

Beak. Rev. Stat §32-110

18 by the ballot

Elector shall mean a citizen of the U.s. 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 attain the historic period of xviii years on or before the first Tuesday afterwards the first Mon in November of the so current calendar year.

Nevada

Nev. Rev. Stat. 293.524 (Enacted by 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 historic period and has continuously resided in this State for 30 days or longer may preregister to vote by any 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 exist 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 be:

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

New Bailiwick of jersey

NJ R.S. 19:31-5

(Enacted past SB 832 in 2015)

17-year-olds may preregister

Each person, who is at to the lowest degree 17 years of age at the fourth dimension he or she applies for registration, who resides in the district in which he or she expects to vote, who will be of the historic period of 18 years or more on or before the start 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 district until that ballot, will at the time have fulfilled all the requirements as to length of residence to qualify him or her equally a legal voter, shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be entitled to be registered in such district. Each 17-year-onetime registrant shall be designated in the Statewide voter registration system every bit temporarily ineligible to vote until the registrant'southward 18th altogether

New Mexico

Due north. K. Stat. Ann. § 1-4-two

18 by the election

A. Any resident of New United mexican states who volition be a qualified elector at the appointment of the next ensuing 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 former will be a qualified elector on the 24-hour interval of the general ballot and registers to vote in accordance with the provisions of Subsection A of this section, for the purposes of the primary ballot, that person shall be considered to exist a voter and may vote in the primary election immediately preceding that general ballot.

New York

McKinney'due south Election Law § 5-210, § 5-507

16-year-olds may preregister

Section v-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 every bit provided by this chapter.

North Carolina

Due north.C.G.S.A. § 163-82.1

Note: Pre-registration was removed by HB 589 in 2013. That law was subsequently struck downwards past the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals, leaving 16-yr-olds able to preregister according to the North Carolina Board of Elections webpage.

16-twelvemonth-olds may preregister

(d) Preregistration. --A person who is at to the lowest degree sixteen years of age but will not be 18 years of historic period by the engagement of the next election 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.S. 163-82.7.

N Dakota

North.D. Cent. Code § 16.1-01-04

18 at election

Due north Dakota does not have voter registration, but:

one. To authorize as an elector of this state, an individual must exist:

a. A citizen of the United States;

b. Eighteen years or older; and

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

Ohio

OH Rev. Lawmaking §3503.01

eighteen by the election

(A) Every citizen of the United States who is of the age of eighteen years or over and who has been a resident of the state thirty days immediately preceding the ballot 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. three, § 1

26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § iv-103

xviii by the ballot

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

26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103. Any person who will become a qualified elector during the sixty (sixty) days before the side by side ensuing ballot at which he could vote shall exist entitled to get a registered voter of the precinct of his or her residence not more than sixty (threescore) and not less than twenty-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).

sixteen-year-olds may preregister

(i) Discipline to this section, an otherwise qualified person who is at least 16 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.

(3) If a person who registers to vote under subsection (ane) of this section will be under xviii years of age on the date of the side by side election held on a date listed in ORS 171.185 or the next special election, the person's voter registration information, including merely not express to the person's name and any identifying information, may non be disclosed every bit a public record nether ORS 192.410 to 192.505.

Pennsylvania

25 Pa.C.South.A. § 1301

18 past the ballot

(a) Eligibility.--An individual who volition be at least 18 years of age on the day of the next election, who has been a denizen of the U.s.a. for at to the lowest degree one calendar month prior to the side by side election and who has resided in this Republic and the election district where the private offers to vote for at least 30 days prior to the next ensuing election and has non been confined in a penal institution for a conviction of a felony within the terminal v years shall be eligible to annals every bit provided in this chapter.

Rhode Island

RI Gen. Laws §17-9.one-33

16-year-olds may preregister, and 17-yr-olds may annals if they will exist 18 past the election

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

(b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at least sixteen (16) years of age, only will not be eighteen (18) years of historic period by the date of the next election, may preregister upon satisfactory proof of historic period and shall exist automatically registered upon reaching eighteen (18) years of age.

South Carolina

Southward.C. Code § 7-v-120

S.C. Const. Art. Ii, § 4

South Carolina Voter Registration Information

xviii by the election

(A) Every citizen of this State and the United States who applies for registration must exist registered if he meets the following qualifications:

(1) meets the historic period qualification equally provided in Section 4, Article 2 of the Constitution of this State;

S.C. Const. Fine art. II, § 4. Every denizen of the United States and of this State of the historic period of eighteen and upwards who is properly registered is entitled to vote as provided by law.

S Dakota

SDCL § 12-3-ane

SDCL § 12-4-ane

eighteen by the election

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

SDCL § 12-4-1. Every person residing within the state who has the qualifications of a voter prescribed by § 12-3-1 or 12-three-1.1, or who will have such qualifications at the side by side ensuing municipal, primary, general, or school district ballot, shall exist entitled to be registered as a voter in the voting precinct in which he resides.

Tennessee

Tenn. Lawmaking Ann. § 2-ii-104

18 by the election

The following persons may register permanently nether this title: (3) A person who will be 18 (18) years of historic period on or before the date of the side by side election afterward the person applies to annals 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 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-ii-101.1

sixteen-year-olds may preregister

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

(a) is 16 or 17 years of age;

(b) will not be 18 years of age before the next election;

(c) is a denizen of the United states;

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

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

(2) An private described in Subsection (i) may not vote in an election and is not registered to vote until:

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

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

Vermont

17 Five.South.A. § 2121

18 by the election

(a) Any person may register to vote in the boondocks of his or her residence in any election held in a political subdivision of this state in which he or she resides who, on ballot 24-hour interval:

(1) is a denizen of the United States;

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

(3) has taken the voter's adjuration; and

(iv) is 18 years of historic period or more.

(b) Any person meeting the requirements of subdivisions (a)(ane)-(3) of this section who will be xviii years of age on or before the date of a general ballot may register and vote in the primary election immediately preceding that general election.

Virginia

VA Lawmaking Ann. § 24.2-403.1

16-year-olds may preregister

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

Washington

Rev. Lawmaking of Wash. 29A.08.230

*Effective July ane, 2019 Rev. Code of Launder. 29A.08.170 will permit xvi and 17-yr-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 course are true. I am a denizen of the United States, I will have lived at this address in Washington for at least thirty days immediately earlier the next election at which I vote, I will exist at least eighteen years old when I vote, I am non disqualified from voting due to a court social club, and I am not under department of corrections supervision for a Washington felony confidence."

West Virginia

W. Va. Code §3-ii-ii

17-year-olds may preregister

(a) Any person who possesses the constitutional qualifications for voting may annals to vote. To be qualified, a person must be a citizen of the United states and a legal resident of West Virginia and of the county where he or she is applying to annals, shall be at to the lowest degree xviii years of age, except that a person who is at least seventeen years of age and who will exist 18 years of historic period past the time of the next ensuing full general ballot may also exist permitted to annals, and shall not exist otherwise legally disqualified: Provided, That a registered voter who has not reached eighteen years of historic period may vote both partisan and nonpartisan ballots in a federal, country, county, municipal or special primary election if he or she volition exist eighteen years of age by the fourth dimension of the respective full general election.

Wisconsin

Wis. Stat. Ann. §vi.05

18 past the election

Whatever person who will be 18 years old on or before ballot day is entitled to vote if the person complies with this chapter.

Wyoming

Wyo. Stat. §22-3-102

18 past the ballot

(a) A person may annals to vote not less than fourteen (14) days before an election, at any election specified in W.S. 22-2-101(a)(i) through (viii) or as provided by W. S. 22-3-117, who satisfies the following qualifications:

(i) He is a citizen of the U.s.;

(two) He will exist at least eighteen (18) years of age on the twenty-four hour period of the adjacent full general election provided he shall not be permitted to vote until he has attained the age of xviii (xviii);

Additional Resources

  • NCSL's newsletter The Canvas commodity on increasing youth turnout
  • Commodity in the Legislation and Public Policy Journal Registering the Youth Through Voter Preregistration
  • Report from the Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Noesis All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Engagement
  • Voting Age for Primary Elections

Can 17 Year Olds Register To Vote Colorado,

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

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