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Every citizen of the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a citizen for ninety days, and an inhabitant of this state for one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county, city, or village and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he or she may offer his or her vote, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he or she shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people, provided however that in time of war no elector in the actual military service of the state, or of the United States, in the army or navy thereof, shall be deprived of his or her vote by reason of his or her absence from such election district; and the legislature shall provide the manner in which and the time and place at which such absent electors may vote, and for the return and canvass of their votes and provided, further, that in any election district in which registration is not required to be personal, no elector who is registered and otherwise qualified to vote at an election, shall be deprived of his or her right to vote by reason of his or her removal from one election district to another election district in the same county within the thirty days next preceding the election at which he or she seeks to vote, and every such elector shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district from which he or she has so removed.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, after January first, one thousand nine hundred twenty-two, no person shall become entitled to vote by attaining majority, by naturalization or otherwise, unless such person is also able, except for physical disability, to read and write English.