Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment IX

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Amendment IX Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE IX.*
*Adopted November 24, 1976.
The electoral privilege must be exercised in the town of the elector’s residence. 30 C. 603. A free colored person,
born in this state, is a citizen thereof. 32 C. 565. Who is an elector in general. 64 C. 161. Cited. 129 C. 624; 136 C. 636.
Cited. 43 CS 297.
(Qualifications of electors.)
Section 1 of article sixth of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:
Every citizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years, who is
a bona fide resident of the town in which he seeks to be admitted as an elector and who
takes such oath, if any, as may be prescribed by law, shall be qualified to be an elector.