Constitution of Connecticut (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment XXXI

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Amendment XXXI Ratified amendment and publisher annotations.

ARTICLE XXXI.*
*Adopted November 26, 2008.
(Preregistration of seventeen-year-old citizens as electors. When seventeen-
year-old citizens may vote in primary elections.)
Article fourteenth of the amendments to the Constitution is amended to read as
follows:
Any citizen who will have attained the age of eighteen years on or before the day
of a regular election may apply for admission as an elector at such times and in such
manner as may be prescribed by law, and, if qualified, shall become an elector on the
day of his or her eighteenth birthday. Any citizen who has not yet attained the age of
eighteen years but who will have attained the age of eighteen years on or before the
day of a regular election, who is otherwise qualified to be an elector and who has
applied for admission as an elector in such manner as may be prescribed by law, may
vote in any primary election, in such manner as may be prescribed by law, held for
such regular election.