How to Register to Vote

Visit the St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections Website

The information below is from the Florida Voter Registration website:
This system can be used to submit an application online for new registration or to make changes to your existing registration record or to prefill a voter registration application form.
To submit an online application, you will need:

• Your Florida driver license (Florida DL) or Florida identification card (Florida ID card) issued by the Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles.

To protect your identity, you will also need:

• The issued date of your Florida DL or Florida ID card; and
• The last four digits of your Social Security Number (SSN4).

Note: If you do not have any one or all of the information above, you may still use the online system to prefill a voter registration application form. However, you will have to print, sign, and then mail or deliver your completed voter registration application to your county Supervisor of Elections’ office. 

You should not use this system to register or update your voter registration information if you are a participant with the Florida Attorney General's Address Confidentiality Program (See sections 741-401.-741.409, and 741.465, Florida Statutes). Contact your county Supervisor of Elections to register.
To be eligible to register to vote you must:

• Be a citizen of the United States of America;
• Be a legal resident of Florida;
• Be a legal resident of the county in which you seek to be registered;
• Be at least 16 years old to preregister or at least 18 years old to register and vote;
• Not be a person who has been adjudicated mentally incapacitated with respect to voting in Florida or any other state without having the right to vote restored; and,
• Not be a person who has been convicted of a felony without your civil rights having been restored.

Notice: It is a 3rd degree felony to submit false information. Maximum penalties are $5,000 and/or 5 years in prison.Registration deadlineThe deadline to register for an upcoming election is 29 days before that election. You can also update your registration record at any time. However, since Florida is a closed primary election state, a party change for a primary election must be made by the registration deadline for that election. If the deadline has passed, you can still submit an online application at any time and it will be processed for future elections.
How to Change Your Name, Address, Party Affiliation, Update Your Signature, and/or Apply for a Replacement Card 
If you have already registered to vote in Florida, but need to change your name, address or party affiliation, update your signature, or apply for a replacement card:
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1. Fill in the Voter Registration Application online. If you wish, you can print the application and write your information in with a black ballpoint pen.
2. Next to box 1, make sure to check the information you wish to change or update:
   • Address Change  If you move within a county after you have registered to vote, please notify your Supervisor of Elections. You may make the change in person, by phone or other electronic means or by other signed, written notice (e.g., Florida Voter Registration Application). You must provide your date of birth.
     
     If you move to another Florida county, you must use the Florida Voter Registration Application to change your address. However, if you provide the information directly to your Supervisor of Elections of the county of new residence, you may make the change in person, by phone or other electronic means or by other signed, written notice (e.g., Florida Voter Registration Application). You must provide your date of birth.
     
     Federal and State laws require you to vote in your precinct of residence.
     
     
   • Party Change (list of Political Parties registered in Florida). You can change your party affiliation by any signed written notice such as a voter registration application. It must include your date of birth or voter registration number.
   • Name Change. If your name changes by marriage or other legal process, submit the change in a signed written notice such as a voter registration application. It must include your date of birth or voter registration number.
   • Card Replacement.
   • Signature Update. You must submit signature updates using the voter registration application. In order for the signature updates to be used for signature comparisons in canvassing absentee and provisional ballots, the update must be received before canvassing of absentee ballots begins. Canvassing may begin as early as 15 days before an election.
3. Print the application out.
4. Sign your application. The application requires an original signature because you are swearing or affirming to an oath.
5. Place the application in an envelope with a first class stamp.
6. Mail the application to your county Supervisor of Elections. You may also opt to mail or hand deliver the application to any Supervisor of Elections office in the state, a driver’s license office, a voter registration agency, an armed forces recruitment office, or the Division of Elections.
7. If the change is made, the Supervisor of Elections will mail you an updated voter information card. Make sure all of the information on your card is correct. If you have any questions, call your Supervisor of Elections.

If the information on the application is not true, the applicant can be convicted of a felony of the third degree and fined up to $5,000 and/or imprisoned for up to 5 years.

Dates to Remember When Registering to Vote
Your Registration Date
For new applicants, your registration date is the date your completed application is postmarked or hand delivered to any Supervisor of Elections’ office in the state, a driver’s license office, a voter registration agency, including an armed forced recruitment office, public library, or the Division of Elections.

When You Can Vote
You must be registered for at least 29 days before you can vote in an election. Since Florida is a closed primary state, only voters who are registered members of a political parties may vote for their respective party's candidates in a primary election. Voters without party affiliation are not eligible to vote for party candidates in a primary election. However, a constitutional amendment adopted in 1998 states that IF all candidates for an office have the same party affiliation and the winner will have no opposition in the general election, all qualified voters, regardless of party affiliation, may vote in the primary election for that office. Party changes must be made by the end of the 29th day before the Primary Election. If you are not registered to vote in the political party for which the primary election is being held, you may vote for nonpartisan candidates and issues.

Voter Registration Book Closing Dates
You can apply to register to vote at any time. However, to vote in an election, you must be registered in the state by the book closing date, which is normally the 29th day before each election. 

​Voter Registration Applications
Instruction for completing the registration application

Please contact your county Supervisor of Elections for any questions you may have regarding registration.

The voter applications are Adobe pdf files and you will need the free Adobe Reader in orders to view or fill them out.

If you are using the Google Chrome browser, please be aware that the form may not print properly. We recommend that you download the form to your computer and open it using the Adobe Reader program rather than using Chrome’s built-in PDF viewer.

NOTE: To download one of the voter applications file it can take up to 3 minutes and 30 seconds on a 28.8kb connection or 1 minute 48 seconds on a 56kb connection.

Florida law does not permit online submission of a registration application. The application must be mailed or hand-delivered.

Florida Voter Registration Application - (pdf,404 KB) Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
Inscripción Electoral del Estado de la Florida - (pdf,133 KB) Se necesita Adobe Acrobat Reader

• St. Johns County
• Voter Registration ​as of 4/11/18
• Democrats: 42,082
• Republicans: 94,963
• Others: 43,166
• Total: 180,211

Democrats Get Out the Vote. Republicans Suppress It.

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Voter Identification
Whether during early voting or on Election Day, you will be asked to provide at the polls a valid photo ID with signature. Any one of the following photo IDs will be accepted:

• Florida driver’s license
• Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
• United States passport
• Debit or credit card
• Military identification
• Student identification
• Retirement center identification
• Neighborhood association identification
• Public assistance identification
• Veteran health identification card issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
• License to carry a concealed weapon or firearm issued pursuant to s. 790.06
• Employee identification card issued by any branch, department, agency, or entity of the Federal Government, the state, a county, or a municipality.

If your photo ID does not include your signature, you will be asked to provide another ID that has your signature.
If you do not bring proper ID, you can still vote a provisional ballot. As long as you are eligible and voted in the proper precinct, your provisional ballot will count provided the signature on your provisional ballot matches the signature in your registration record

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