Kentucky Voting Age
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| Kentucky Voting Age | |
|---|---|
| State: Kentucky | |
| Law: Voting Age | |
| Info: Voting Age Info | |
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| Emancipation Law | |
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| Voting Age |
Summary:
18 to vote in the general election, 17 to vote in the primary if you are turning 18 in time for the general election.
Link:
http://www.lrc.state.ky.us/legresou/constitu/145.htm http://www.lrc.ky.gov/KRS/116-00/055.PDF
Full Text:
Kentucky Constitution Section 145 Persons entitled to vote.
Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has resided in the state one year, and in the county six months, and the precinct in which he offers to vote sixty days next preceding the election, shall be a voter in said precinct and not elsewhere but the following persons are excepted and shall not have the right to vote.
116.055 Qualifications for voting in primary election.
Before a person shall be qualified to vote in a primary election, he shall possess all the qualifications required of voters in a regular election. In addition, he shall be a registered member of the party in whose primary election he seeks to vote, and shall have been registered as a member of that party on December 31 immediately preceding the primary election, or, in the case of new registrations made after December 31 immediately preceding the primary election, he shall have registered and remained registered as a member of that party. No person shall be allowed to vote for any party candidates or slates of candidates other than that of the party of which he is a registered member. The qualifications shall be determined as of the date of the primary, without regard to the qualifications or disqualifications as they may exist at the succeeding regular election, except that minors seventeen (17) years of age who will become eighteen (18) years of age on or before the day of the regular election shall be entitled to vote in the primary if otherwise qualified. However, any registered voter, whether registered as a member of a party or as an independent, shall be qualified to vote in primary elections for candidates listed in all nonpartisan races. Any voter eligible to vote in a primary election shall also be eligible to vote in a subsequent runoff primary if one shall be necessary.
