Florida Administrative Code › 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › 1S - Division of Elections › Chapter 1S-2 - ELECTIONS › Section 1S-2.041 - FVRS Address and Eligibility Records Maintenance

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) Applicability. This rule provides
				procedures to maintain current and accurate addresses of legal residence for
				registered voters, eliminate duplicate registration records for the same voter,
				and identify and remove ineligible registered voters.
(2) Definitions.
(a) "Active voter" refers to a registered
				voter whose registration status is active.
(b) "BVRS" refers to the Bureau of Voter
				Registration Services.
(c) "FVRS"
				refers to the Florida Voter Registration System as the statewide voter
				registration system.
(d) "Inactive
				voter" refers to a registered voter whose registration record has been placed
				on inactive status after procedures in Section
				 98.065(4)(c),
				F.S., and this rule were followed.
(e) "Notice of potential ineligibility"
				refers to the notice under Section
				 98.075(7),
				F.S., that a Supervisor of Elections sends to a voter who has been identified
				as potentially ineligible.
(f)
				"Potentially ineligible voter" is a registered voter who has been identified as
				potentially ineligible based on information relating to death, felony
				conviction without civil rights restored, adjudication of mental incapacity
				without voting rights restored, lack of United States citizenship, fictitious
				person, not of legal age, or listing a residential address that is not the
				voter's Florida legal residence.
(g) "Residential address" or "address of
				legal residence" as used interchangeably herein refers to the voter's legal
				residence for voter registration and voting purposes.
(h) "SSN4" refers to the last four digits of
				an applicant's or registered voter's social security number.
(i) "Supervisor" refers to the Supervisor of
				Elections.
(j) "Third-party source"
				or "third-party source address change" refers to address change information
				received from any of the following sources other than the voter that indicates
				the voter's legal residential address might have changed: address list
				maintenance program activities under Section
				 98.065(2), F.S.
				(e.g. returned mail from the United States Postal Service ("U.S.P.S.") and
				address matching conducted through National Change of Address Validation
				("NCOA") vendors or licensees, jury lists (constitute lists of undeliverable
				jury notices or jury notices with forwarding addresses) forwarded by the Clerks
				of the Court ("Jury list"), list of address changes from the Department of
				Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles ("DHSMV list"), or other government
				agency-related activity ("Other") that indicates an address change.
(k) "Undeliverable" refers to any mailing
				that could not be delivered and is returned. It may be marked with words such
				as 'undeliverable, ' 'return to sender, ' 'deceased' or 'forwarding order
				expired.'
(l) "Voter activity"
				refers to the voter's action of updating his or her registration, requesting a
				vote-by-mail ballot or appearing to vote which for a registered voter who is in
				inactive status would trigger a change to active status.
(m) "Voter registration official" or
				"registration official" as used interchangeably herein is defined in Section
				 97.021(42),
				F.S.