Article III
Sec. 1: In all elections, every
maleinhabitant of this State,being a citizen of the United States; everymaleinhabitant residing in this State on the twenty-fourth day of June, eighteen hundred thirty-five; everymaleinhabitant residing in this State on the first day of January, eighteen hundred fifty; every 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 two years and six months prior to said last named day; the wife of any 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 two years and six months prior to said last named day, and every civilizedmaleinhabitant of Indian descent,aand native of the United States and not a member of any tribe, shall be an elector and entitled to vote; but no one shall be an elector or entitled to vote at any election, unless he or she shall be above the age of twenty-one years,and has resided in this State six months, and in the township or ward in which he or she offers to vote twenty 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 ofhisa vote by reason ofhisabsence from the township, ward or State in whichhesuch elector resides; and the Legislature shall provide by law 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.
