Your voting rights are irrelevant to whether you might need to pay tax. If you had income reported on a W-2 and tax was withheld---shown in boxes 2 or 17, you can file a tax return to seek a refund. Or...if you had income over $400 that was reported on a 1099NEC, you are supposed to file a tax return and pay self-employment tax for Social Security and Medicare.
Who has to file?
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Do-I-Need-to-File-a-Tax-Return%3F
CAN I FILE A RETURN IF I AM A DEPENDENT?
If you can be claimed as a dependent on your parents’ return, you can still file your own return so that you can receive a refund of taxes withheld. (You will not get back anything for Social Security or Medicare withheld.) Be sure that on your own return you say that you can be claimed as a dependent on someone else’s return.
https://ttlc.intuit.com/community/children-dependents/help/do-i-need-to-file-my-own-taxes-if-i-m-a-d...
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