Laws to be Passed. I LAWS TO BE PASSED. Sec. 4. Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper 2 proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage 3 hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which 4 registration shall be completed at least ten days before each 5 election. Such registration shall not be required for town and 6 village elections except by express provision of law. In cities 7 and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, accord8 ing to the last preceding State enumeration of inhabitants, 9 voters shall be registered upon personal application only; but 10 voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be II required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting 12 of the officers having charge of the registry of voters. 7. VI. FLORIDA. At any election at which a citizen or subject of any foreign countrv shall offer to vote, under the provisions of this Constitution, if required by an elector, he shall produce to the persons lawfully authorized to conduct and supervise such election a duly sealed and certified copy of his declaration of intention, and if unable to do so by reason that such copy cannot be obtained at the time of said election, he shall be allowed to make affidavit before a proper officer, setting forth the reason why he is unable to furnish such certificate, and if said affidavit prove satisfactory to the inspec Sec. Art. tors, they shall allow said elector to cast his vote; and any naturalized citizen offering to vote shall, if so required by an elector, produce his certificate of naturalization, or a duly certified copy thereof, and in the event that said elector cannot produce the same, he shall be allowed to make affidavit before a proper officer, stating in full the reason why it cannot be furnished, and if satisfactory to the inspectors of said election, such elector shall be allowed to vote. 9. VI. The Legislature shall enact such laws as will preserve the purity of the ballot given under this Constitution. 4. V. KANSAS. The Legislature shall pass such laws as may be necessary for ascertaining by proper proofs the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established. 147. KENTUCKY. The General Assembly shall provide by law for the registration of all persons entitled to vote in cities and towns having a population of five thousand or more; and may provide by general law for the registration of other voters in the State. Where registration is required, only persons registered shall have the right to vote. The mode of registration shall be prescribed by the General Assembly. In all elections by persons in a representative capacity, the voting shall be viva voce and made a matter of record; but all elections by the people shall be by secret official ballot, furnished by public authority to the voters Sec. Art. Laws to be Passed. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass laws to punish, with fine and imprisonment, any person who shall remove into any election district or precinct of any ward of the city of Baltimore, not for the purpose of acquiring a bona fide residence therein, but for the purpose of voting at an approaching election, or who shall vote in any election district or ward in which he does not reside (except in the case provided for in this article), or shall, at the same election, vote in more than one election district, or precinct, or shall vote, or offer to vote, in any name not his own, or in place of any other Sec. Art. person of the same name, shall vote in any county in which he does not reside. 5. I. The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform registration of the names of all the voters in this State who possess the qualifications prescribed in this article, which registration shall be conclusive evidence to the judges of election of the right of every person thus registered to vote at any election thereafter held in this State; but no person shall vote at any election, federal or State, hereafter to be held in this State, or in any municipal election in the city of Baltimore, unless his name appears in the list of registered voters; and until the General Assembly shall hereafter pass an act for the registration of the names of voters, the law in force on the first day of June, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, in reference thereto, shall be continued in force, except so far as it may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution; and the registry of voters, made in pursuance thereof, may be corrected, as provided in said law; but the names of all persons shall be added to the list of qualified voters by the officers of registration, who have the qualifications prescribed in the first section of this article, and who are not disqualified under the provisions of the second and third sections thereof. 42. XIII. The General Assembly shall pass laws necessary for the preservation of the purity of elections. MICHIGAN. 6. II. Laws may be passed to preserve No one shall be allowed to vote for members of the Legislature or other officers who has not been duly registered under the Constitution and laws of this State, by an officer of this State, legally authorized to register the voters thereof. And registration under the Constitution and laws of this State by the proper officers of this State is hereby declared to be an essential and › necessary qualification to vote at any and all elections. 251. XII. Electors shall not be registered within four months next before any election at which they may offer to vote; but appeals may be heard and determined and revis1on take place at any time prior to the election; and no person who, in respect to age and residence, would become entitled to vote, within the said four months, shall be excluded from registration on account of his want of qualification at the time of registration. Sec. Art 5. V. MISSOURI. The General Assembly shall provide, by law, for the registration of all voters in cities and counties having a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, and may provide for such registration in cities having a population exceeding twentyfive thousand inhabitants and not exceeding one hundred thousand, but not otherwise. 9. IX. MONTANA. The Legislative Assembly shall have the power to pass a registration and such other laws as may be necessary to secure the purity of elections and guard against abuses of the elective franchise. Provision shall be made by law for the registration of the names of the electors within the countles of which they may be residents, and for the ascertainment, by proper proofs, of the persons who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage, as hereby established, to preserve the purity of elections and to regulate the manner of holding and making returns of the same; and the Legislature shall have power to prescribe by law any other or further rules or oaths as may be deemed necessary, as a test of electoral qualifications. |