Elective franchise.
In all the States except
Wyoming and
Colorado (where women are entitled to full suffrage) the right to vote at general elections is restricted to males twenty-one years of age or over.
The registration of voters is required in the following States and Territories:
Alabama,
Arizona,
California,
Colorado,
Connecticut,
Florida,
Idaho,
Illinois,
Louisiana,
Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Michigan,
Minnesota,
Mississippi,
Montana,
Nevada,
New Hampshire,
New Jersey,
New Mexico,
North Carolina,
Pennsylvania,
South Carolina,
Utah,
Vermont,
Virginia and
Wyoming.
In some counties in
Georgia registration is required by local law. In
Kentucky registration is required in cities; in
Kansas in cities of the first and second class; in
Nebraska and
Iowa in cities of 2,500 population and over; in
North Dakota in cities of over 3,000; in
Ohio in some cities; in
Maine in towns of 500 or more voters; in
South Dakota in cities and towns of over 1,000 voters and in counties where registration has been adopted by popular vote; in
Tennessee in all counties of 50,000 or more inhabitants; in New York in all cities and villages of over 5,000 population; in
Missouri in cities of 100,000; in
Wisconsin in some cities.
In
Washington in cities and towns and in voting precincts having 250 voters or more.
In
Texas cities of 10,000 or over may require registration.
In
Rhode Island non-taxpayers are required to register before Dec. 31, each year.
Registration is prohibited by constitutional provision in
Arkansas and
West Virginia.
The qualifications for voting in each State and the classes excluded from suffrage are as follows:
Citizen or alien who has declared intention; must have resided in State one year, county three months, town or precinct thirty days; persons convicted of crime punishable by imprisonment, idiots or insane excluded from suffrage.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention; must have resided in State one year, county six months, precinct thirty days; persons convicted of felony, until pardoned, failing to pay poll tax, idiots or insane excluded.
Citizen by nativity, naturalization or treaty of
Queretaro; must have resided in State one year, county ninety (lays, precinct thirty days;
Chinese, insane, embezzlers of public moneys, convicted of infamous crime excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention four months previous to offering to vote; must have resided in State six months, county ninety days, town or precinct ten days; persons under guardianship, in prison, insane or idiots excluded.
Citizen who can read constitution or statutes; must have resided in State one year, town six months; persons convicted of felony or theft exeluded.
Citizen and paying county tax after age of twenty-two; must have resided in State one year, county one month, precinct fifteen days; idiots, insane, paupers, felons excluded.
Citizen or alien who has dedared intention and paid capitation tax two years; must have resided in State one year, county six months; persons under guardianship, insane, convicted of felony or any infamous crime excluded.
Citizen who has paid all his taxes since 1877; must have resided in State one year, county six months; idiots, insane, convicted of crime punishable by
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imprisonment until pardoned, tax delinquents excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State six months, county thirty days;
Chinese,
Indians, Mormons, felons, insane, convicted of treason or election bribery excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county ninety days, town or precinct thirty days; persons convicted of crime punishable in penitentiary until pardoned and restored to rights excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention and resided one year in
United States and six months in State; must have resided in State six months, town sixty days, precinct thirty days; persons convicted of crime and disfranchised by judgment of court excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State six months, county sixty days; idiots, insane, convicted of infamous crime, nonresident
United States soldiers and marines excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention; must have resided in State six months, town or precinct thirty days; idiots, insane, convicts, rebels not restored to citizenship, persons under guardianship, public embezzlers, bribed, excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county six months, town or precinct sixty days; idiots, insane, persons convicted of treason, felony, or bribery at election excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention; must have resided in State one year, county six months, precinct thirty days; idiots, insane, persons convicted of treason, embezzlement of public funds, or any crime punishable by imprisonment in penitentiary excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in town three months; paupers, persons under guardianship, Indians not taxed, and in 1893 all new voters who cannot read constitution or write their own names in English excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county six months; persons over twenty-one years convicted of larceny or other infamous crime unless pardoned, under guardianship as lunatics or non compos mentis excluded.
Citizen who can read constitution in
English, and write; must have resided in State one year, town six months; paupers (except
United States soldiers and sailors honorably discharged) and persons under guardianship excluded.
Citizen or inhabitant who has declared intention under
United States laws two years and six months before election and lived in State two and a half years; must have resided in State six months, town or county twenty days;
Indians, duellists, and accessories excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention and civilized
Indians; must have resided in
United States one year prior to election, State four months, town or precinct ten days; persons convicted of treason or felony unless pardoned, under guardianship or insane excluded.
Citizen who can read or understand constitution after Jan. 1, 1892; must have resided in State two years, town or precinct one year (except clergymen, who are qualified after six months in precinct) ; insane, idiots, Indians not taxed, felons, persons who have not paid taxes excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention not less than one year nor more than five before offering to vote; must have resided in State one year, town sixty days;
United States soldiers and marines, paupers, criminals convicted once until pardoned, felons and violators of suffrage laws convicted a second time excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county thirty days;
Indians, felons, and soldiers excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention thirty days prior to election; must have resided in State six months, county forty days, town or precinct ten days; idiots, insane, convicted of treason or felony unless pardoned, soldiers and sailors excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State six months, town or precinct thirty days; idiots, insane, convicted of treason or felony, unamnestied Confederates who bore arms against the
United States excluded.
Inhabitants, native or naturalized; must have resided in town
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six months; paupers (except
United States soldiers and sailors honorably discharged), persons excused from paying taxes at their own request excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county five months; idiots, insane, paupers, persons convicted of crimes (unless pardoned) which exclude them from being witnesses excluded.
New York
Citizen ninety days previous to election; must have resided in State one year, county four months, town or precinct thirty days; persons convicted of bribery or any infamous crime, unless sentenced to reformatory or pardoned, bettors on result of any election at which they offer to vote, bribers and bribed for votes excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county ninety days; persons convicted of felony or other infamous crime, idiots, and lunatics excluded.
Citizen, alien who has declared intention one year, or civilized Indian who has severed tribal relations two years prior to election; must have resided in State one year, county six months, precinct ninety days;
United States soldiers and sailors, persons non compos mentis, and felons excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county thirty days, precinct twenty days; persons convicted of felony until pardoned and restored to citizenship, idiots, insane,
United States soldiers and sailors excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention one year; must have resided in State six months; idiots, insane, convicted of felony,
United States soldiers and sailors, and
Chinese excluded.
Citizen one month, and if twenty-two years or over must have paid tax within two years; must have resided in State one year, or six months if after having been a qualified elector or native he shall have removed and returned; in precinct two months; non-taxpayers and persons convicted of some offence whereby right of suffrage is forfeited excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State two years, town six months; paupers, lunatics, persons non compos mentis, convicted of bribery or infamous crime until restored to right to vote, under guardianship excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, town sixty days; persons convicted of treason, murder, or other infamous crime, duelling, paupers, insane, and idiots excluded.
Citizen or alien who has declared intention; must have resided in
United States one year, State six months, county thirty days, precinct ten days; persons under guardianship, idiots, insane, convicted of treason or felony unless pardoned excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, county six months, and be resident of precinct or district; persons convicted of bribery or other infamous offence excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, town six months, and be actual resident of precinct or district; idiots, lunatics, paupers,
United States soldiers and sailors, and persons convicted of felony excluded.
Citizens must have resided in State one year, town or precinct three months (if residing in State one year,
bona fide resident in precinct at time of registration may vote); unpardoned convicts, deserters during Civil War, and exConfederates excluded.
Citizen; must have resided in State one year, town three months, precinct thirty days; idiots, lunatics, persons convicted of bribery at election, embezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, and petty larceny, duellists and abettors, unless pardoned by legislature, excluded.
See
disfranchisement. 
