Name, Address, and Party Changes from an NVRA or FPCA Form

Voters who want to change their name or party affiliation can notify the Supervisor using an NVRA or an FPCA form. These forms can also be used to notify the Supervisor of a residential address change.

Note: Voters can also make name, address, and party changes at a DMV office when obtaining/renewing a driver license or by contacting the elections office by signed written notice, phone, or email.

NVRA/FPCA changes can be processed for local voters as well as voters from Florida counties other than your own. Party changes from voters outside your county can be processed by your office, but they should be suspended to the resident county in case a city election in the resident county might require deferral of the voter's party change.

If a voter is moving into your county from another Florida county 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.

  1. Go to VOTER REGISTRATION > Application Forms.
  2. On the Find a Voter dialog, enter the voter’s information and click Application Search. The search will return either:
    • an application dialog filled in with data from the voter's record

    or

    • if multiple records match the data you entered, the search will return a color-coded list sorted with the most likely matches listed first.

Scan the list of matches returned by the search. (Driver-license matches will appear at the top of the list.) When you find the voter, click the name to open their application.

  1. On the NVRA form, write the voter ID number and the county name in the OFFICIAL USE ONLY box.
  2. In the Registration Source field onscreen, select a value that matches where the application came from.
  3. Change the name, address, or party by typing over the existing information in the appropriate field(s).

Local Address Changes—If the voter has submitted a new address in your county, the address will be validated against your county database when you tab out of the address fields. If the address is invalid, you will see the message Invalid address - Do you want Street Lookup?. If the address cannot be validated, process the application as Incomplete. See What If a Voter's New Address Is Invalid? for further instructions.

Out-of-County Address Changes—If the voter is not local or is moving out of your county, the address will be validated against the resident county's streets in FVRS when you click Save (in the next step, below). If the address is invalid, you will see the message Invalid Address. Correct or Suspend Record?. Click OK and then click FVRS Suspend. See How to Suspend a Voter Application for further instructions.

Note:  If you are not sure which county the voter is moving into, on the application dialog, select any county other than your own from the County drop-down list. The selection of a non-local county will cue the system to search for the new address on FVRS rather than the local streets table.

Local Party Changes—If the voter is changing their political party affiliation, enter the date of the request in the Party Change Req. Date field, so that the voter will be allowed to vote in elections where they are eligible and will receive the correct ballot. Voter Focus inserts today’s date in this field by default. If a voter requests a party change after book closing for a primary election, the party change will be recorded, but it will not be applied to the voter’s record until the day after the election. You will see a message to this effect when you save the application. See How to Handle Party Changes after Book Closing for a Primary for more information.

Out-of-County Party Changes—Select the new party and enter the date of the application in the Party Change Req. Date field. When you click Save (in the next step, below), you will see the message indicating you must suspend the party change for other counties. Click OK and then click FVRS Suspend. See How to Suspend a Voter Application for further instructions.

  1. Click Save to update the voter’s application.
  2. FVRS will schedule printing of an updated voter information card in the voter's resident county. If the voter is local, the scheduled card will appear in the Notices application.

If the voter is local and you prefer to print the card now:

  • If the Voter Card program is not already running, go to PRINTING > Voter Card and start it.
  • Access the voter's record and click Printing.
  • On the Schedule Document Printing dialog, click Voter Card. The card will print and the scheduled print job will be removed from the Notices schedule.
  • Scan the NVRA form.
  • Index the form to the voter’s record.
  • If the address change was entered while the system was not connected to FVRS, the change will be logged as a suspense item. When the FVRS connection is restored, go to the Suspense Queue, find the voter, and process the change to have it sent to FVRS.
  • If the voter is not local, forward the form to the resident county, per the FSASE Protocols.