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Pennsylvania Statutes § 2811 Qualifications of electors

⤴ Up to Article VII: Qualifications of Electors

Statute Text

Every citizen of this Commonwealth eighteen years of age, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections, provided he or she has complied with the provisions of the acts requiring and regulating the registration of electors:
(1) He or she shall have been a citizen of the United States at least one month.
(2) He or she shall have resided in the State ninety days immediately preceding the election.
(3) He or she shall have resided in the election district where he or she shall offer to vote at least thirty days immediately preceding the election, except that if qualified to vote in an election district prior to removal of residence, he or she may, if a resident of Pennsylvania, vote in the election district from which he or she removed his or her residence within thirty days preceding the election.

History

1937, June 3, P.L. 1333, art. VII, § 701. Amended 1959, Dec. 30, P.L. 2085, § 1; 1971, July 9, P.L. 197, No. 29, § 1; 1974, July 3, P.L. 443, No. 153, § 1, imd. effective.

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