§11-12  Age; place of registering.  (a) 
Every person who has reached the age of eighteen years or who is seventeen
years of age and will be eighteen years of age by the date of the next
election, and is otherwise qualified to register may do so for that election. 
The person shall then be listed upon the appropriate county general register
and precinct list.  No person shall register or vote in any other precinct than
that in which the person resides except as provided in section 11-21.



(b)  A person who is otherwise qualified to
register and is at least sixteen years of age but will not be eighteen years of
age by the date of the next election may preregister upon satisfactory proof of
age and shall be automatically registered upon reaching age eighteen. [L 1970,
c 26, pt of §2; am L 1972, c 77, §1; am L 1973, c 217, §1(d); am L 1976, c 106,
§1(2); am L 1980, c 264, §1(b); gen ch 1985; am L 1993, c 24, §1]