Cal. Const., art. II, § 2 · Article II. VOTING, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, AND RECALL
Cal. Const., art. II, § 2
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
(a) A United States citizen 18 years of age and resident in this State may vote.
(b) An elector disqualified from voting while serving a state or federal prison term, as described in Section 4, shall have their right to vote restored upon the completion of their prison term.
Notes and commentary — not constitutional text
History
Sec. 2 amended Nov. 3, 2020, by Prop. 17. Res.Ch. 24, 2020. Effective December 16, 2020.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS§ionNum=SEC.%202.&article=II
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- compose_ca.py 2026-10-22: the Legislative Counsel's CAML content files read by a tokenizer (caml_readers.reader_a); an independent xml.etree reading (caml_readers.reader_b) agrees on every section
Cited by 5 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Cal. Const., art. II, § 2. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Elections Code
- Elec. Code, § 321Printed as Section 2 of Article II of the California Constitution
- Elec. Code, § 2000Printed as Section 2 of Article II of the California Constitution
- Elec. Code, § 2170Printed as Section 2 of Article II of the California Constitution
- Elec. Code, § 2263Printed as Section 2 of Article II of the California Constitution
- Elec. Code, § 14031Printed as Section 2 of Article II of the California Constitution
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