Your county—You can suspend an application
to your own county if the applicant resides in your county and they provided
an invalid residential address. An address is considered invalid when
you are unable to process it successfully against the database Street
table—that is, when Voter Focus won’t accept the address you enter into
the voter application
form. Suspending the application to your own county gives you the
opportunity to conduct further research on the address or to contact the
applicant for verification of what they provided on the application.
Note: Suspension
of an application whose address is invalid is not required. You could
instead process the application as Incomplete, which will schedule an
Incomplete Registration Notice for the voter. However, some counties prefer
to suspend the application while the address undergoes further research,
perhaps by their GIS staff. If the research
indicates the address is truly invalid, the application can then be processed
as Incomplete.
Another county—All new applications taken for
a county other than your own must be suspended to the applicant’s resident
county. This gives the resident county the discretion to deny the application
or give it special handling because the applicant is known to Election Officials there.
All out-of-county applications containing a change
to the voter's party must be suspended to the resident county.
You should also suspend the application to the
resident county if a voter's out-of-county address cannot be validated
by FVRS.
The Department
of State—If
an application does not indicate the applicant’s county and you cannot
validate the address locally, you can suspend the application to the Florida
Department of State. However, do so only as a last resort, because the
State’s resources for validating street addresses are limited.
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