Question: At what age are Kentuckians’ allowed to vote and what year was the law passed?

Answer:  A  June 19, 1993 Herald-Leader article says that in 1955, Kentucky became one of the first states to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. Here’s the article of the Kentucky Constitution dealing with voting rights:

Kentucky Constitution

Section 145 Persons entitled to vote. Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has  resided in the state one year, and in the county six months, and the  precinct in which he offers to vote sixty days next preceding the election,  shall be a voter in said precinct and not elsewhere but the following persons are excepted and shall not have the right to vote. 1. Persons  convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason, or felony, or bribery in an election, or of such high misdemeanor as the General  Assembly may declare shall operate as an exclusion from the right  of suffrage, but persons hereby excluded may be restored to their civil rights by  executive pardon. 2. Persons who, at the time of the election, are in confinement under the judgment of a court for some penal offense. 3. Idiots and insane persons. Text as Ratified on: November 8, 1955. History: 1955 amendment was proposed by 1954 Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 1; original version ratified August 3, 1891, and revised September 28, 1891. Linda Niemi

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