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How Preregistration Works

Register to Vote! logo Preregistration is an election process that allows individuals younger than 18 years of age to register to vote, so they are eligible to cast a ballot when they achieve 18, the voting age for all state and federal elections. Typically, a pre-registrant will fill out an application and be added to the voter registration list with a "pending" or "preregistration" status. Upon turning 18, the individual is added to the voter registration list and able to cast a election.

Preregistration states vary in terms of their registration age limits. Some allow 16-year-olds to preregister, and others allow 17-yr-olds to preregister. The remaining preregistration states do not establish a specific preregistration age limit. Instead, these states let youth to register to vote before the age of eighteen, provided that they will exist of voting age by the time of the adjacent general election. Run across the section on Voter Registration Ages below for more than data.

Some states besides permit 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections, provided that they will turn 18 before the general ballot. FairVote provides information on states that allow 17-year-olds to vote in congressional primaries and presidential primaries or caucuses.

State Voter Registration Ages

15 states + Washington, D.C., permit preregistration first at xvi years old:
- California, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Due north Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah, Virginia and Washington.
4 states let preregistration first at 17 years old:
- Maine, Nevada, New Bailiwick of jersey and W Virginia.
5 states set another historic period at which an individual may preregister:
- Alaska permits those nether xviii to register anytime within ninety days before their eighteen^th birthday.
- Georgia, Iowa and Missouri permit registration of those who are 17.5 (if they plow 18 before the next election).
- Texas permits a person who is 17 years and x months of historic period to register.
25 states do not specifically accost an age for registration and instead allow an individual to register if they will plow xviii by the side by side ballot (note that this usually refers to the next general election, with some exceptions). In some states this may mean that youth could register as shortly as the previous general election is over, so that could be every bit early as 16 years of age. Reach out to your land election officials for details.
- Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Due south Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
North Dakota does not require individuals to register prior to the election, but to authorize equally an elector an individual must be 18 years or older on Election Day.

More than details in Tabular array 1 below.

Legislative Considerations

Turnout. The argument for implementing preregistration policies has to do with increasing youth turnout. Turnout among eighteen to 29-twelvemonth-olds is consistently lower than other age brackets, and then states looking to preregistration as one pick to engage young voters in the electoral process. A series of studies have shown the preregistration has a positive effect on youth turnout:
Logistics. Since preregistered youth may move between preregistration and their commencement chance to vote, these registrations may no longer be accurate and valid. States may need to send notifications to preregistered voters once they plow 18 to confirm the registration and address information. There may also need to be updates or additions to the statewide voter registration database in club to enter preregistrations and rail this information.
Cost. Costs may be a cistron; implementation in Colorado was estimated at $572,112 in 2013. Additionally, the price of returned mailings to this mobile population can exist significant.
Identification. Younger voters may not accept a driver's license, so what identification is required in order to preregister? Is an affidavit signed by a parent sufficient?
Location. Where should preregistration take place? Does the state need to work with the department of motor vehicles or with high schools?
Protected information. Consider whether information for preregistered voters should be protected and not provided on publicly bachelor voter lists.
Education and outreach. How do get the word out that this option is bachelor and reach out to potential young voters?

Table 1: State Statutes on Registration
Land	SUMMARY	STATUTORY LANGUAGE
Alabama Const. of Ala. Commodity VIII Voter Registration FAQs	18 past the ballot	Every citizen of the United States who has attained the age of eighteen years and has resided in this state and in a county thereof for the fourth dimension provided by law, if registered as provided by law, shall have the right to vote in the canton of his or her residence.
Alaska As §fifteen.07.040	Within 90 days preceding 18^th birthday	A person who is qualified under Every bit 15.05.010(1)--(3) is entitled to register at whatever fourth dimension throughout the year except that a person nether 18 years of age may register at whatever time within 90 days immediately preceding the person's 18th altogether.
Arizona A.R.Southward. § sixteen-101	18 by the ballot	A. Every resident of the land is qualified to register to vote if he: 2. Volition be eighteen years of historic period or more on or earlier the date of the regular general election next following his registration.
Arkansas AR Const. Art. 3, § i Voter Registration Information	18 past the election	Except every bit otherwise provided past this Constitution, any person may vote in an election in this land who is: (1) A citizen of the United states of america; (2) A resident of the Country of Arkansas; (3) At least eighteen (18) years of historic period; and (4) Lawfully registered to vote in the election.
California CA Elec. Code §2102(ii)(d) (Enacted by SB 113 in 2014)	16-year-olds may preregister	A person who is at to the lowest degree 16 years of age and otherwise meets all eligibility requirements to vote may submit his or her affidavit of registration as prescribed by this section. A properly executed affidavit of registration made pursuant to this subdivision shall exist deemed constructive every bit of the appointment the affiant will be 18 years of age, if the information in the affidavit of registration is still current at that time. If the information provided by the affiant in the affidavit of registration is not electric current at the time that the affirmation of registration would otherwise become constructive, for his or her registration to become effective, the affiant shall provide the current information to the proper county elections official equally prescribed past this chapter.
Colorado Colo. Rev. Stat. §ane-ii-101(two)(a)(I) (Enacted by HB 1135 in 2013)	sixteen-twelvemonth-olds may preregister	Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this department, upon satisfactory proof of age, every person who is otherwise qualified to register and is sixteen years of age or older merely will not accept reached eighteen years of historic period by the date of the adjacent election may preregister and update his or her preregistered information past any means authorized in this article for persons eighteen years of age or older. Upon reaching eighteen years of age, the person is automatically registered.
Connecticut Conn. Gen. Stat. Ann. § nine-12	18 by the election	(b) Whatsoever denizen who will have attained the age of xviii years on or before the mean solar day of a regular election may apply for admission as an elector. If such denizen is plant to be qualified the citizen shall become an elector on the solar day of the denizen's eighteenth altogether. The registrars shall add the name of any person applying nether this subsection, if plant qualified, to the registry list and, if applicative, to the enrollment list, together with the effective appointment of his registration. The registrars may place the name of each such person at the cease of the registry and enrollment lists for the voting district.
Delaware 15 Del. Code § 1701(b) (Enacted by HB 381 in 2010)	sixteen-year-olds may preregister	(b) The Section shall let registration of any citizen and bona fide resident of this State 16 years of age or older through the Division of Motor Vehicles every bit set forth in § 2050(a) of this championship, provided that such bidder shall not exist a qualified voter unless the person will be 18 years of age or older on or before the day of the full general election side by side succeeding the bidder'due south registration.
District of Columbia D.C. Code § 1-1001.07(a-two) (Enacted in 2009)	xvi-twelvemonth-olds may preregister	A person who is otherwise qualified may pre-register on or afterwards that person'south 16th altogether and may vote in any ballot occurring on or subsequently that person'southward 17th birthday; provided, that the person is at least eighteen years of age on or before the next full general election.
Florida Fla. Stat. § 97.041(b) (Enacted past SB 866 in 2008)	xvi-year-olds may preregister	A person who is otherwise qualified may preregister on or later on that person's 16th altogether and may vote in whatever election occurring on or after that person's 18th birthday.
Georgia Ga. Lawmaking Ann. § 21-2-216(c)	17.v-year-olds may preregister	(c) Whatsoever person who possesses the qualifications of an elector except that concerning age shall be permitted to register to vote if such person will learn such qualification within six months after the 24-hour interval of registration; provided, however, that such person shall not be permitted to vote in a primary or election until the acquisition of all specified qualifications.
Hawaii HRS §11-12 (Enacted by SB 280 in 1993)	16-yr-olds may preregister, and 17-year-olds may annals but not vote	(a) Every person who has reached the historic period of eighteen years or who is seventeen years of historic period and will be xviii years of age past the date of the next election, and is otherwise qualified to register may exercise so for that election. The person shall then exist listed upon the advisable county general register and precinct list. No person shall annals or vote in any other precinct than that in which the person resides except as provided in section 11-21. (b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at least sixteen years of age but volition non be eighteen years of age by the engagement of the next election may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall be automatically registered upon reaching historic period eighteen.
Idaho Idaho Code § 34-402	xviii by the election	Every male or female citizen of the United States, eighteen (18) years old, who has resided in this state and in the canton for thirty (thirty) days where he or she offers to vote prior to the day of election, if registered within the time menses provided past law, is a qualified elector.
Illinois ten ILCS 5/iii-6	18 by the ballot	For the purposes of this Code, an individual who is 17 years of age and who will be 18 years of historic period on the date of the general or consolidated election shall be deemed competent to execute and adjure to any voter registration forms.
Indiana Ind. Code §3-7-13-i	eighteen by the election	A person who: (1) will be at least eighteen (18) years of age at the next general, municipal, or special ballot; (ii) is a U.s.a. denizen; and (iii) resides in a precinct continuously before a general, municipal, or special ballot for at least thirty (30) days; may, upon making a proper awarding nether this article, register to vote in that precinct.
Iowa Iowa Code Election Laws §48A.v(2) (Originally enacted by SF 2194 in 2010, amended past HF 516 in 2017)	17.5-year-olds may preregister	ii. To be qualified to register to vote an eligible elector shall: c. (1) Be at least eighteen years of historic period. Still, for purposes of voting in the primary election, an eligible elector shall be at least eighteen years of historic period on the engagement of the respective general election or metropolis election. Completed registration forms shall exist accepted from registrants who are at least seventeen years of age. For an election other than a primary election, the registration shall not be effective until the registrant reaches the historic period of xviii. The commissioner of registration shall ensure that the nascence appointment shown on the registration form is at least seventeen years before than the date the registration is processed. (two) A registrant who is at least seventeen years of age and who will be 18 by the engagement of a pending ballot is a registered voter for the pending election for purposes of chapter 53. For purposes of voting in a primary election nether chapter 43, a registrant who will be at least 18 years of historic period by the date of the corresponding general election or city election is a registered voter for the awaiting primary election.
Kansas Kan. Rev. Stat. §25-2306	18 past the election	The application for registration shall include a argument past the applicant that he will have reached the age of eighteen (18) years earlier the side by side statewide general election. No person may vote at whatever election until he has reached the age of eighteen (xviii) years.
Kentucky Ky. Rev. Stat. §116.045, §116.055	18 by the election.	Ky. Rev. Stat. §116.045(1) Whatever person may register equally a voter during the period registration is open up if he or she possesses, or will possess on the day of the adjacent regular election, the qualifications set forth in KRS 116.025. Ky. Rev. Stat. § 116.055… The qualifications shall be determined as of the date of the primary, without regard to the qualifications or disqualifications every bit they may exist at the succeeding regular ballot, except that minors seventeen (17) years of historic period who will become eighteen (18) years of age on or before the mean solar day of the regular election shall be entitled to vote in the primary if otherwise qualified.
Louisiana Louis. Rev. Stat. 18:101 A(3) (Enacted by HB 501 in 2014)	16-year-olds may preregister	(3) A person who is 16 years of historic period may register to vote in the manner provided in R.South. eighteen:114(B)(1) or by making awarding in person at the office of the registrar of voters. Withal, no one under the age of 18 years shall be permitted to vote in any ballot
Maine 21- M.R.S.A. §155	17-twelvemonth-olds may preregister	The registrar shall conditionally have the registration and enrollment of any person who is 17 years of historic period and who is otherwise qualified to be a voter. The conditional registration automatically becomes effective on the person's 18th altogether and the registrant then is eligible to vote. A person who has registered under this department and who has not attained 18 years of age may vote by absentee election at any election if that person attains 18 years of age on or earlier the date of the ballot and is otherwise eligible to vote by absentee ballot.
Maryland MD Elec. Constabulary §3-102 (Enacted by HB 217 in 2010)	16-yr-olds may preregister	(a)(1) Except every bit provided in subsection (b) of this department, an private may become registered to vote if the individual: (i) is a citizen of the United States; (ii) is at to the lowest degree xvi years old; (iii) is a resident of the State as of the solar day the individual seeks to register; and (iv) registers pursuant to this title. (2) Nevertheless paragraph (1)(2) of this subsection, an individual under the age of 18 years: (i) may vote in a primary ballot in which candidates are nominated for a general or special ballot that will occur when the individual is at least 18 years onetime; and (ii) may not vote in any other election.
Massachusetts M.G.L.A. 51 § 42 Grand.1000.L.A. 51 § 47A	xvi-year-olds may preregister	M.G.Fifty.A. 51 § 42. Registration every bit a voter shall be past affirmation of registration made in conformity with the requirements of this chapter past whatever person at to the lowest degree xvi years of age or older. M.Grand.L.A. 51 § 47A. If, after examination of an affidavit of registration, information technology appears to the registrars that the person has all the qualifications to be registered as a voter except that of age and the person has obtained the age of 16, then they shall enter the person's name in the current annual register of voters with the designation "pre-registrant" or other term or code as specified by the state secretary. The designation shall be removed when the person, on or before the solar day of the next preliminary, primary, special or general election or town coming together, attains full historic period. No pre-registrant shall be immune to vote until the pre-registrant obtains full age unless otherwise permitted past law.
Michigan M.C.L.A. 168.492 How to Register to Vote	xviii by the ballot	Each person who has the following qualifications of an elector, or who will have those qualifications at the adjacent election or primary ballot, is entitled to register equally an elector in the township, city, or hamlet in which he or she resides. The person shall exist a citizen of the United States; non less than eighteen years of age; a resident of the state for not less than 30 days; and a resident of the township, city, or hamlet on or before the thirtieth 24-hour interval earlier the side by side regular or special ballot or primary election.
Minnesota Minn. Stat. Ann. §201.071	18 past the ballot	The application must besides contain the post-obit certification of voter eligibility: "I certify that I: (1) will be at to the lowest degree eighteen years onetime on election 24-hour interval… The certification must include boxes for the voter to respond to the following questions: "(1) Are yous a citizen of the United States?" and "(2) Will yous be 18 years sometime on or earlier ballot day?"…
Mississippi Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-11	18 by the election	Every inhabitant of this state, except persons adjudicated to be not compos mentis, who is a citizen of the U.s.a. of America, eighteen (eighteen) years old and upwards… Whatever person who volition be eighteen (eighteen) years of age or older on or before the date of the general election and who is duly registered to vote not less than thirty (30) days before the primary election associated with the general election, may vote in the primary election even though the person has not reached his or her eighteenth altogether at the fourth dimension that the person seeks to vote at the main election. No others than those specified in this section shall be entitled, or shall be immune, to vote at any election.
Missouri Mo. Rev. Stat §115.133(1) (Enacted by HB 23 in 1993)	17.five-year-olds may preregister	Except as provided in subsection 2 of this department, whatever citizen of the United States who is a resident of the State of Missouri and seventeen years and six months of age or older shall be entitled to register and to vote in any ballot which is held on or later on his eighteenth birthday.
Montana MCA 13-two-205	18 by the ballot	An individual who is not eligible to register because of residence or historic period requirements only who will be eligible on or before ballot day may use for voter registration pursuant to 13-2-110 and be registered subject to verification procedures established pursuant to thirteen-2-109.
Nebraska Bill. Rev. Stat §32-110	18 by the election	Elector shall mean a denizen of the United States whose residence is inside the land and who is at least xviii years of age or is seventeen years of age and volition accomplish the age of eighteen years on or before the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of the and then current agenda yr.
Nevada Nev. Rev. Stat. 293.524 (Enacted by SB 144 in 2017)	17-yr-olds may preregister	Every denizen of the United States who is 17 years of age or older just less than 18 years of historic period and has continuously resided in this State for 30 days or longer may preregister to vote by any of the means available for a person to register to vote pursuant to this championship. A person eligible to preregister to vote is deemed to exist preregistered to vote upon the submission of a completed awarding to preregister to vote.
New Hampshire NH RSA 654:7	eighteen by the election	I. Whatsoever person registering to vote shall be: (a) At least 18 years of historic period on the day of the next ballot; and
New Bailiwick of jersey NJ R.S. 19:31-v (Enacted past SB 832 in 2015)	17-twelvemonth-olds may preregister	Each person, who is at least 17 years of age at the fourth dimension he or she applies for registration, who resides in the commune in which he or she expects to vote, who will exist of the historic period of xviii years or more on or before the first election in which he or she expects to vote, who is a citizen of the United States, and who, if he or she continues to reside in the district until that election, will at the time take fulfilled all the requirements as to length of residence to qualify him or her as a legal voter, shall, unless otherwise disqualified, be entitled to be registered in such commune. Each 17-yr-old registrant shall be designated in the Statewide voter registration arrangement as temporarily ineligible to vote until the registrant's 18th birthday
New Mexico Due north. M. Stat. Ann. § 1-4-2	18 by the election	A. Any resident of New United mexican states who will exist a qualified elector at the date of the next ensuing general ballot shall be permitted within the provisions of the Election Code to register and become a voter. B. If a person who is seventeen years onetime will be a qualified elector on the mean solar day of the full general election and registers to vote in accord with the provisions of Subsection A of this section, for the purposes of the chief ballot, that person shall be considered to exist a voter and may vote in the main election immediately preceding that general election.
New York McKinney's Ballot Law § five-210, § five-507	16-year-olds may preregister	Section 5-507. Voter pre-registration and education on voter pre-registration. 1. Pre-registration. A person who is at least sixteen years of age and who is otherwise qualified to register to vote may pre-register to vote, and shall be automatically registered upon reaching the age of eligibility as provided by this chapter.
North Carolina Due north.C.Thousand.S.A. § 163-82.1 Notation: Pre-registration was removed by HB 589 in 2013. That police was subsequently struck down by the 4^th U.S. Courtroom of Appeals, leaving xvi-year-olds able to preregister according to the North Carolina Lath of Elections webpage.	16-year-olds may preregister	(d) Preregistration. --A person who is at to the lowest degree 16 years of age but will non be 18 years of age past the date of the side by side election and who is otherwise qualified to register may preregister to vote and shall be automatically registered upon reaching the age of eligibility post-obit verification of the person'southward qualifications and address in accordance with Grand.S. 163-82.vii.
North Dakota N.D. Cent. Code § sixteen.ane-01-04	18 at ballot	North Dakota does not have voter registration, but: ane. To authorize as an elector of this state, an private must be: a. A citizen of the United states; b. Eighteen years or older; and c. A resident of this state who has resided in the precinct at least thirty days immediately preceding any election.
Ohio OH Rev. Code §3503.01	18 by the ballot	(A) Every citizen of the Us who is of the age of xviii years or over and who has been a resident of the state thirty days immediately preceding the election at which the citizen offers to vote, is a resident of the county and precinct in which the denizen offers to vote, and has been registered to vote for thirty days, has the qualifications of an elector and may vote at all elections in the precinct in which the denizen resides.
Oklahoma OK Const. Fine art. 3, § 1 26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103	18 by the election	OK Const. Art. 3, § i. Subject to such exceptions as the Legislature may prescribe, all citizens of the United States, over the age of xviii (xviii) years, who are bona fide residents of this state, are qualified electors of this country. 26 Okl. Stat. Ann. § 4-103. Any person who will become a qualified elector during the 60 (60) days before the next ensuing ballot at which he could vote shall exist entitled to become a registered voter of the precinct of his or her residence not more than threescore (60) and not less than 20-four (24) days prior to said election.
Oregon ORS §247.016 (Originally enacted by HB 2910 in 2007. SB 802 in 2017 reduced preregistration age from 17 to sixteen).	16-yr-olds may preregister	(1) Field of study to this department, an otherwise qualified person who is at least xvi years of historic period may register to vote. (2) A person who registers to vote under subsection (1) of this section may not vote in an ballot until the person attains the historic period of eighteen years. (3) If a person who registers to vote nether subsection (1) of this section will be under eighteen years of age on the date of the next ballot held on a date listed in ORS 171.185 or the next special election, the person's voter registration data, including but non limited to the person's name and any identifying information, may not exist disclosed equally a public record under ORS 192.410 to 192.505.
Pennsylvania 25 Pa.C.S.A. § 1301	18 by the election	(a) Eligibility.--An private who will be at least 18 years of age on the day of the next election, who has been a denizen of the United States for at least 1 calendar month prior to the next ballot and who has resided in this Commonwealth and the ballot commune where the private offers to vote for at to the lowest degree xxx days prior to the next ensuing election and has not been bars in a penal establishment for a conviction of a felony within the terminal 5 years shall be eligible to register as provided in this chapter.
Rhode Island RI Gen. Laws §17-9.one-33	16-twelvemonth-olds may preregister, and 17-year-olds may annals if they will exist eighteen by the election	(a) Every person who has reached the historic period of eighteen (xviii) years or who is seventeen (17) years of age and will be 18 (18) years of age by the appointment of the next election, and is otherwise qualified to register may do and then for that election. (b) A person who is otherwise qualified to register and is at to the lowest degree sixteen (16) years of historic period, simply will not be eighteen (18) years of historic period by the date of the next ballot, may preregister upon satisfactory proof of age and shall be automatically registered upon reaching eighteen (xviii) years of historic period.
South Carolina S.C. Code § 7-5-120 S.C. Const. Fine art. II, § 4 Due south Carolina Voter Registration Information	eighteen past the election	(A) Every citizen of this State and the U.s. who applies for registration must be registered if he meets the following qualifications: (1) meets the historic period qualification as provided in Section 4, Article II of the Constitution of this State; South.C. Const. Art. II, § 4. Every citizen of the United States and of this Country of the age of eighteen and upwards who is properly registered is entitled to vote as provided by police.
South Dakota SDCL § 12-3-i SDCL § 12-4-one	18 by the election	SDCL § 12-3-1. Every person resident of this state who shall exist of the age of eighteen years and upwards, not otherwise disqualified, who shall have complied with the provisions of police relating to the registration of voters shall be entitled to vote at any election in this state. SDCL § 12-4-1. Every person residing within the state who has the qualifications of a voter prescribed by § 12-3-1 or 12-iii-1.1, or who will accept such qualifications at the next ensuing municipal, primary, general, or school district election, shall exist entitled to be registered as a voter in the voting precinct in which he resides.
Tennessee Tenn. Code Ann. § 2-2-104	eighteen past the election	The post-obit persons may register permanently under this title: (3) A person who will be xviii (xviii) years of age on or before the date of the next election after the person applies to register and who is otherwise eligible to annals.
Texas Tex. El. Code Ann § xiii.001	Individuals 17 years and ten months one-time may annals	(b) To be eligible to apply for registration, a person must, on the date the registration application is submitted to the registrar, be at least 17 years and 10 months of historic period and satisfy the requirements of Subsection (a) except for age.
Utah UT Code 20A-2-101.1	16-year-olds may preregister	(one) An private may preregister to vote if the individual: (a) is sixteen or 17 years of age; (b) will not exist xviii years of age earlier the next election; (c) is a denizen of the United States; (d) has been a resident of Utah for at least 30 days; and (due east) currently resides within the voting district or precinct in which the private preregisters to vote. (2) An individual described in Subsection (one) may not vote in an election and is not registered to vote until: (a) the individual is at least 18 years of age; and (b) the county clerk registers the individual to vote under Subsection (4).
Vermont 17 V.S.A. § 2121	18 by the ballot	(a) Any person may register to vote in the town of his or her residence in any election held in a political subdivision of this state in which he or she resides who, on election day: (1) is a citizen of the U.s.; (2) is a resident of the state of Vermont; (three) has taken the voter's adjuration; and (4) is 18 years of age or more. (b) Any person meeting the requirements of subdivisions (a)(1)-(3) of this section who will exist 18 years of age on or before the date of a general election may register and vote in the master ballot immediately preceding that full general election.
Virginia VA Code Ann. § 24.2-403.1	sixteen-year-olds may preregister	Whatever person who is otherwise qualified and is 16 years of age or older, but who volition not be 18 years of age on or before the mean solar day of the next full general election, may preregister to vote.
Washington Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.230 *Effective July one, 2019 Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.170 will allow 16 and 17-yr-olds to preregister.	eighteen before the election	Rev. Code of Wash. 29A.08.230. For all voter registrations, the registrant shall sign the following oath: "I declare that the facts on this voter registration form are true. I am a citizen of the United States, I will have lived at this accost in Washington for at least thirty days immediately earlier the next election at which I vote, I will be at to the lowest degree 18 years one-time when I vote, I am not disqualified from voting due to a court order, and I am non under department of corrections supervision for a Washington felony confidence."
West Virginia W. Va. Code §3-2-two	17-twelvemonth-olds may preregister	(a) Any person who possesses the ramble qualifications for voting may register to vote. To be qualified, a person must exist a citizen of the United States and a legal resident of West Virginia and of the county where he or she is applying to register, shall be at least eighteen years of historic period, except that a person who is at to the lowest degree seventeen years of age and who volition be eighteen years of historic period past the time of the next ensuing general election may also be permitted to register, and shall not be otherwise legally butterfingers: Provided, That a registered voter who has non reached eighteen years of age may vote both partisan and nonpartisan ballots in a federal, country, county, municipal or special master election if he or she will be eighteen years of age by the fourth dimension of the corresponding general election.
Wisconsin Wis. Stat. Ann. §half dozen.05	18 past the election	Any person who will be 18 years onetime on or before ballot day is entitled to vote if the person complies with this chapter.
Wyoming Wyo. Stat. §22-iii-102	18 by the election	(a) A person may register to vote not less than 14 (14) days before an election, at any election specified in Westward.Southward. 22-2-101(a)(i) through (viii) or as provided by W. S. 22-3-117, who satisfies the post-obit qualifications: (i) He is a citizen of the United States; (two) He will be at least eighteen (eighteen) years of historic period on the day of the next full general election provided he shall not be permitted to vote until he has attained the age of eighteen (18);

Additional Resource

NCSL's newsletter The Canvass article on increasing youth turnout
Commodity in the Legislation and Public Policy Journal Registering the Youth Through Voter Preregistration
Report from the Commission on Youth Voting and Civic Knowledge All Together Now: Collaboration and Innovation for Youth Appointment
Voting Age for Primary Elections