Change a Voter's Residential Address

Voters who change their residential address are required to notify the Supervisor of Elections so the elections office can change the voter's precinct as appropriate and issue a new voter information card. Address changes can be initiated by the voter or by the Supervisor using information from certain third parties. This topic explains how to process address changes initiated by voters themselves. For information on address changes not originating with voters, see About Third-Party Address Changes.

Voters can notify the Supervisor of an address change via any of these methods:

A Florida Voter Registration Application Form (NVRA form) or a Federal Post Card Application (FPCA form). Any Florida elections office or driver license office can process address changes from these forms. See Name, Address, and Party Changes from an NVRA or FPCA Form for instructions.
A signed written notice. If the voter is moving into a new county, the notice must be sent to the Supervisor in the voter's new county.
Telephone. If the voter is moving into a new county, they must call the Supervisor in their new county.
Email. If the voter is moving into a new county, they must email the Supervisor in their new county.
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Signed written notices, telephone requests, and email requests are considered voter response.

Application forms submitted to driver license offices are processed by HSMV with the address change flowing from HSMV into FVRS, which schedules a voter information card in the Notices Queue of the voter's new county. In situations where the voter’s driver license, Florida ID, or social security number has not been verified, the address change taken by HSMV will come to the county as a suspended application. See How to Process an Application Suspended to Your County for more information.

If a voter moving into your county from another Florida county uses an application form for the address change and their application includes a party change, you can make the address change and party change at the same time. You do not need to save the address change and then reopen the record to make the party change.

For in-county address changes submitted by a method other than an application form (that is, by a voter response), there are two ways to record the voter's new address:

On the voter's Maint tab (see In-County Address Changes from a Voter Response for instructions).

On the Correspondence from Voter dialog (see Move-In Address Change from a Voter Response).

For move-ins to your county where the notification is by voter response (that is, not via an application form), you must make the change on the Correspondence from Voter dialog as described in Move-In Address Change from a Voter Response.

Voter records cannot be changed if the registration status is Incomplete or Pending, but you can modify the voter's online application form in Voter Focus, provided that the changes are submitted on an NVRA or FPCA form. Access the application form by going to VOTER REGISTRATION > Application Forms, entering the voter information on the Find a Voter dialog, and clicking Application Search.

In-county address changes can be made when there is no connection to FVRS, but move-ins, move-outs, and residential address changes for out-of-county voters cannot. The lack of an FVRS connection will be indicated by the note (without FVRS) in the title bar of dialogs. (In-county address changes when disconnected are permitted on the application form and when recording an early vote by clicking Address Change on the Voting Election dialog.) If you make an in-county address change while FVRS is unavailable, after reconnection to the state system you must go to the Suspense Queue and find the voter to update the voter's new address on FVRS.