Last Updated: 12/12/2023

Name Changes from a Written Notice

Voters who change their name can notify the Supervisor of Elections via a signed written notice containing their date of birth and voter registration number.

Note: Voters can also submit name changes on voter registration applications. For instructions on processing name changes from applications, see Name, Address, and Party Changes from an NVRA or FPCA Form for instructions.

To change a voter's name upon receipt of a written notice:

Go to VOTER REGISTRATION > Record Correspondence from Voter.
On the Find a Voter dialog, enter the voter’s information. Determine whether the voter is in your county or is moving into your county from another county and will also require an address change. If the voter is yours, click Local Search. If they are a move-in, click FVRS Search.
Scan the list of matches returned by the search. When you find the voter, click the name to display their information in the Correspondence from Voter dialog.
In the Card Returned by Voter box, select the last button to activate the drop-down list of voter response types and select the one that matches the written notice from the voter.
Click Address Change Inside State.
On the Voter New Address dialog, enter the voter's new name. If they are a move-in voter, enter their new address. Click OK to schedule printing of an updated voter information card and return to the Find a Voter dialog. Dismiss the Find a Voter dialog.

Note: If the voter's new address validates against your local Streets table, the voter will be moved into your county. If address cannot be validated, leave the old residential address in the record until you can contact the voter to confirm the address. Continue with the next step so that a voter response can be recorded, even though the address appears to be invalid. Scheduling of the voter information card does not occur if the address was not validated.

If you want to print the voter information card now:
1. If the Voter Card application is not already running, go to the Voter Focus console and start it.
2. Access the voter's record and click Printing.
3. On the Schedule Document Printing dialog, click Voter Card. The card prints and the scheduled print job is removed from the Notices Queue.

For more information about immediate printing of a voter information card, see Voter Card Program.

Scan the document and index it to the voter’s record.

After changing a voter’s record from a voter response, you will notice these changes:

On the Activity tab, the last voter activity date is updated.
On the Audit tab, the name change, any address change, and voter information card are recorded.
On the Comms tab, the name change, any address change, and voter information card are added to the list of communications.