Amendment 26

1. The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.



2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

This amendment grants those, at lease 18 years of age, the right to vote.

 State Welcomes Voting Rights for NRIs
CNN.com

Punjab Education Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Political Affairs Committee Member Sewa Singh Sekhwan today welcomed the Central notification granting voting rights to non-resident Indians (NRIs) and described it as a historic decision aimed at involving millions of NRIs in Indian politics.


Sekhwan said more than 11 million Indians were living outside the country for employment, education and other reasons without acquiring the citizenship of their adoptive countries.


With this new notification, he said, they would become eligible to register their names in the electoral rolls of their hometowns.


The minister said this decision would have a greater impact in Punjab, as a very large number of Punjabis have settled abroad. “The Punjab government had taken up this issue with the Union government several times,” he said in a statement issued here.


In Punjab voting rights are being granted to non resident Indians. This resembles absentee voting in the United States. People in the United States are not denied voting rights because they are absent from their registered resident.


In this speech Presdient Lyndon Johnson discusses the importance of every individual being given the right to vote.