Online Pre-registration for sixteen and 17 yr olds

xvi and 17 year olds can now pre-annals to vote online.

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About Pre-Registration

Online pre-registration is at present available for eligible 16 and 17 year olds past visiting registertovote.ca.gov. California youth who pre-register to vote will have their registration go active in one case they turn 18 years old.

Pre-registration does not modify the voting age, which is 18. Instead, it allows eligible Californians ages 16 or 17 to complete the online voter registration course providing sufficient fourth dimension and opportunity to get ready to vote.

The new online pre-registration applies to California youth who are 16 or 17 and run into the post-obit criteria:

  • A United States denizen and a resident of California,
  • Non currently serving a land or federal prison term for the conviction of a felony (for more information on the rights of people who accept been incarcerated, delight see the Secretarial assistant of State's Voting Rights: Persons with a Criminal History), and
  • Not currently found mentally incompetent to vote by a court (for more information, delight come across Voting Rights: Persons Subject to Conservatorship).

Additional Resources

  • Voter Didactics and Outreach
  • California Students Vote

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