---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch20"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 20"
heading: "Elective Franchise"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch20"
sections_count: 69
---

# Chapter 20 — Elective Franchise

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Generally](/usc/42/ch20-schI.md)
- [Subchapter I–A — Enforcement of Voting Rights](/usc/42/ch20-schI-A.md)
- [Subchapter I–B — Supplemental Provisions](/usc/42/ch20-schI-B.md)
- [Subchapter I–C — Eighteen-Year-Old Voting Age](/usc/42/ch20-schI-C.md)
- [Subchapter I–D — Federal Absentee Voting Assistance](/usc/42/ch20-schI-D.md)
- [Subchapter I–E — Voting Rights of Overseas Citizens](/usc/42/ch20-schI-E.md)
- [Subchapter I–F — Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped](/usc/42/ch20-schI-F.md)
- [Subchapter I–G — Registration and Voting by Absent Uniformed Services Voters and Overseas Voters in Elections for Federal Office](/usc/42/ch20-schI-G.md)
- [Subchapter I–H — National Voter Registration](/usc/42/ch20-schI-H.md)
- [Subchapter II — Federal Election Records](/usc/42/ch20-schII.md)