---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 10702"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "10702"
heading: "“State” defined"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/10702"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Voting Rights"
  - "Chapter 107 — Right to Vote at Age Eighteen"
---

# §10702. “State” defined


As used in this chapter, the term “State” includes the District of Columbia.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–110, title III, § 302, as added Pub. L. 91–285, § 6, June 22, 1970, 84 Stat. 318; amended Pub. L. 94–73, title IV, § 407, Aug. 6, 1975, 89 Stat. 405.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973bb–1 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

### Amendments

1975—Pub. L. 94–73 substituted definition of State for provisions prohibiting denial of right to vote because of age.