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Sec. 1. Male and female citizens to enjoy equal rights. The rights of citizens of the State of Wyoming to vote and hold office shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex. Both male and female citizens of this state shall equally enjoy all civil, political and religious rights and privileges.

Sec. 2. Qualifications of electors. Every citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, who has resided in the state or territory one year and in the county wherein such residence is located sixty days next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election, except as herein otherwise provided.

Sec. 3. Electors privileged from arrest. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest on the days of election during their attendance at elections, and going to and returning therefrom.

Sec. 4. Exemption of electors from military duty. No elector shall be obliged to perform militia duty on the day of election, except in time of war or public danger.

Sec. 5. Electors must be citizens of United States. No person shall be deemed a qualified elector of this state, unless such person be a citizen of the United States.

Sec. 6. What persons excluded from franchise. All persons adjudicated to be mentally incompetent or persons convicted of felonies, unless restored to civil rights, are excluded from the elective franchise.

Sec. 7. When residence not lost by reason of absence. No elector shall be deemed to have lost his residence in the state, by reason of his Rh