Article VI.
Suffrage and Eligibility to Office

Section 1. Who may vote

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Right to vote

Who may vote. Every person born in the United States, and every person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years of age, and possessing the qualifications set out in this article, shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people of the State, except as herein otherwise provided

Who may vote

Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years of age, and possessing the qualifications set out in this Article, shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people in the State, except as herein otherwise provided.

Who may vote

Every male person, born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty-one years old or upward, who shall have resided in the State twelve months next preceding the election, and ninety days in the county in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector. But no person who, upon conviction or confession in open Court, shall be adjudged guilty of felony, or of any other crime infamous by the laws of this State, and hereafter committed, shall be deemed an elector, unless such person shall be restored to the rights of citizenship in a mode prescribed by law.

Who may vote

Every male person born in the United States, and every male person who has been naturalized, twenty one years old or upward, who shall have resided in this State twelve months next preceding the election, and thirty days in the county, in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed an elector.

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1971 — Article VI. Section 1

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1902 — Article VI. Section 2

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