The Text

Laws shall be made for ascertaining, by proper proofs, the citizens who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage hereby established, and for the registration of voters; which registration shall be completed at least ten days before each election. Such registration shall not be required for town and village elections except by express provision of law. In cities and villages having five thousand inhabitants or more, voters shall be registered upon personal application only; but voters not residing in such cities or villages shall not be required to apply in person for registration at the first meeting of the officers having charge of the registry of voters. The number of such inhabitants shall be determined according to the latest census or enumeration, federal or state, showing the population of the city or village, except that the federal census shall be controlling unless such state enumeration, if any, shall have been returned two or more years after the return of the preceding federal census.