Article VII
Sec. 1: In all elections, every male inhabitant of this State, being a citizen of the United States, every male inhabitant residing in
thethis State on the twenty-fourth day of June,one thousand eight hundred and thirty-fiveeighteen hundred thirty-five;, every male inhabitant residing inthethis State on the first day of January,one thousand eight hundred and fiftyeighteen hundred fifty,who hasevery male inhabitant of foreign birth who, having resided in the State two years and six months prior to the eighth day of November, eighteen hundred ninety-four, and having declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States, pursuant to the laws thereof, six months preceding an election, or who has resided in this Statetwo years and six months prior to said last named day, and declared his intention as aforesaid, and every civilized male inhabitant of Indian descent, a native of the United States, and not a member of any tribe, shall be an elector and entitled to vote; but nocitizen or inhabitantone shall be an elector,or entitled to vote at any election,unless he shall be above the age of twenty-one years, and has resided in this Statethreesix months,and in the township or ward in which he offers to vote,tentwenty days next preceding such election: Provided, That in time of war, insurrection or rebellion,no qualified elector in the actual military service of the United States, or of this State, or in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his vote by reason of his absence from the township, ward or State in which he resides;, and the Legislature shall have the power, and shall provide the manner in which, and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the canvass and return of their votes to the township or ward election district in which they respectively reside, or otherwise.
