Sec. Art. Qualification of Voters. the General Assembly, and other civil officers for the county or district in which he resides; and there shall be no qualification attached to the right of suffrage, except that each voter shall give to the judges of election, where he offers to vote, satisfactory evidence that he has paid his poll taxes assessed against him for such preceding period as the Legislature shall prescribe, and at such time as may be prescribed by law; without which his vote cannot be received. And all male citizens of the State shall be subject to the payment of poll taxes and the performance of military duty within such ages as may be prescribed by law. The General Assembly shall have power to enact laws requiring voters to vote in the election precincts in which they may reside, and laws to secure the freedom of elections and the purity of the ballot box. 2. VI. TEXAS. Every male person subject to none of the foregoing qualifications, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years and who shall be a citizen of the United States, and who shall have resided in this State one year .next preceding an election, and the last six months within the district or county in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified elector; and every male person of foreign birth, subject to none of the foregoing disqualifications, who, at any time before an election, shall have declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, in accordance with the federal naturalization laws, and hall have resided in this State Sec. Art. one year next preceding such election, and the last six months in the county in which he offers to vote, shall also be deemed a qualified elector; and all electors shall vote in the election precinct of their residence: Provided, That electors living in any unorganized county, may vote at any election precinct in the county to which such county is attached for judicial purposes. 3. VI. All qualified electors of the State, as herein described, who shall have resided for six months immediately preceding an election within the limits of any city or corporate town, shall have the right to vote for mayor and all other elective officers; but in all elections to determine expenditure of money or assumption of debt, only those shall be qualified to vote who pay taxes on property in said city or incorporated town: Provided, That no poll tax for the payment of debts thus incurred shall be levied upon the persons debarred from voting in relation thereto. VERMONT. 21. II. Every man of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State for the space of one whole year next before the election of Representatives and is of a quiet and peaceable behavior, and will make the following oath or affirmation shall be entitled to all the privileges of a freeman of this State: "You solemnly swear (or affirm) that whenever you give your vote or suffrage, touching any matter that concerns the State of Vermont, you will do it so as in your conscience you shall judge will most conduce to the best good of the same, as estab shall have lived in the State one year, and in the county ninety days, and in the city, town, ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election at which they offer to vote: Provided, that Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise: Provided further, that all male persons who at the time of the adoption of this Constitution are qualified electors of the Territory shall be electors. Every male citizen of the United The Legislature may provide that there shall be no denial of the elective franchise at any school election on account of sex. 1. III. WISCONSIN. Every male person, of the age of United States. of the Second. White persons of foreign Third. Persons of Indian blood, Third-Persons of Indian blood who have once been declared by law of Congress to be citizens of the United States, any subsequent law of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. Fourth-Civilized persons of Indian descent not members of any tribe; provided, that the Legislature may at any time extend by law the right of suffrage to persons not herein enumerated; but no such law shall be in force until the same shall be submitted to a vote of the people at a general election and approved by a majority of all the votes cast at such election; and provided further, that in incorporated Sec. Art. cities and villages, the Legislature may provide for the registration of electors and prescribe proper rules and regulations therefor. 1. VI. WYOMING. The rights of citizens of the State of Wyoming to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this State shall equally enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges. 2. VI. Every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who has resided in the State or Territory one year, and in the county wherein such residence is located sixty days next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election, except as herein otherwise provided. 5. VI. No person shall be deemed a qualified elector of this State, unless such person be a citizen of the United States. 10. VI. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any person of the right to vote who has such right at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, unless disqualified by the restrictions of section six of this article. After the expiration of five years from the time of the adoption of this Constitution, none but citizens of the United States shall have the right to vote. Persons Excluded from the Right of Suffrage, etc. PERSONS EXCLUDED FROM THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE, ETC. I Sec. 2. No person who shall receive, accept, or offer to 2 receive, or pay, offer or promise to pay, contribute, offer or 3 promise to contribute to another, to be paid or used, any 4 money or other valuable thing as a compensation or reward 5 for the giving or withholding a vote at an election, or who 6 shall make any promise to influence the giving or withholding 7 any such vote, or who shall make or become directly or indi8 rectly interested in any bet or wager depending upon the result 9 of any election, shall vote at such election; and upon challenge 10 for such cause, the person so challenged, before the officers II authorized for that purpose shall receive his vote, shall swear 12 or affirm, before such officers that he has not received or 13 offered, does not expect to receive, has not paid, offered or 14 promised to pay, contributed, offered or promised to con15 tribute to another, to be paid or used, any money or other 16 valuable thing as a compensation or reward for the giving or 17 withholding a vote at such election, and has not made any 18 promise to influence the giving or withholding of any such 19 vote, nor made or become directly or indirectly interested in 20 any bet or wager depending upon the result of such election. 21 The Legislature shall enact laws excluding from the right of 22 suffrage all persons convicted of bribery or of any infamous 23 crime. Sec. Art. bribery, forgery, perjury, dueling, fraudulent bankruptcy, theft or other offense for which an infamous punishment is inflicted. (May be restored, amendment Article XVII). 6. VI. Laws shall be made to support the privilege of free suffrage, prescribing the manner of regulating and conducting meetings of the electors, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence therein, from power, bribery, tumult and other improper conduct 1. IV. DELAWARE. (All elections for Governor, Senators, Representatives, sheriffs and coroners shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November of the year in which they are to be held, and be by ballot.) (But the Legislature may by law prescribe the means, methods and instruments of voting so as to best secure secrecy and the independence of the voter; preserve the freedom and purity of elections and prevent fraud, corruption and intimidation thereat.) And in such elections every free white male citizen, of the age of twenty-two years or upwards, having resided in the State one year next before the election, and the last month thereof in the county where he offers to vote, and having within two years next before the election, paid a county tax, which shall have been assessed at least six months before the election, shall enjoy the right of an elector; and every free white male citizen of the age of twenty-one years and under |