All citizens of the United States, including occupants of soldiers' and sailors' homes, over the age of eighteen who are residents of this state and of the political subdivision in which they offer to vote are entitled to vote at all elections by the people, if the election is one for which registration is required if they are registered within the time prescribed by law, or if the election is one for which registration is not required, if they have been residents of the political subdivision in which they offer to vote for thirty days next preceding the election for which they offer to vote: Provided however, no person who has a guardian of his or her estate or person by reason of mental incapacity, appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction and no person who is involuntarily confined in a mental institution pursuant to an adjudication of a court of competent jurisdiction shall be entitled to vote, and persons convicted of felony, or crime connected with the exercise of the right of suffrage may be excluded by law from voting.
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(Amendments adopted at general election Nov. 4, 1958; general election Nov. 5, 1974.)
V. A. M. S. Const. Art. 8, § 2, MO CONST Art. 8, § 2
Statutes are current through the end of the 2021 First Regular and First Extraordinary Sessions of the 101st General Assembly. Constitution is current through the November 3, 2020 General Election.