Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 230 - State Election Board › Chapter 15 - Voter Registration › Subchapter 5 - Application for Voter Registration › Part 23 - VOTER REGISTRATION APPLICATION SERVICES AT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY FACILITIES AND IN MOTOR LICENSE AGENCIES › Section 230:15-5-100 - Voter registration application services provided with driver license services at Department of Public Safety facilities and at motor license agencies

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a)
Voter registration application services required.
Both federal and
				  state law require that an application for a new driver license in Oklahoma
				  shall be a simultaneous application for voter registration unless the driver
				  license applicant specifically opts out of voter registration. The choice to
				  opt out of voter registration shall be indicated in writing.
(b)
New driver license.
Each
				  person who applies for a new Oklahoma driver license or a new state
				  identification card at a Department of Public Safety facility shall be provided
				  with simultaneous voter registration services as mandated by the National Voter
				  Registration Act [52 USC '20504] and by state law. [26:4-109.3] An application
				  submitted for a new driver license or new state identification card shall serve
				  as an application for voter registration unless the applicant fails to sign the
				  voter registration application. A Department of Public Safety driver license
				  examiner enters information provided by each driver license applicant into the
				  Department of Public Safety system. Information that is common to both the
				  driver license and voter registration applications then prints on a voter
				  registration application form unless the applicant has opted not to apply for
				  voter registration. The examiner gives the applicant the voter registration
				  application form and instructs the applicant to verify that all information is
				  correct and to select a political affiliation, to enter information about
				  previous voter registration in the spaces provided, to read the oath, and to
				  sign and date the form. The examiner takes the signed voter registration
				  application from the applicant and sends it by mail to the State Election Board
				  as described in
				  230:15-5-108.
				  When a new driver license recipient subsequently appears at a motor license
				  agency to have his or her driver license made, motor license agency personnel
				  are not required to repeat the offer of voter registration services.
(c)
Driver license renewal.
Each
				  person who renews an Oklahoma driver license or a state identification card at
				  a motor license agency shall be offered the opportunity by motor license agency
				  personnel to register to vote by filling out and signing a paper copy of the
				  Oklahoma Voter Registration Application form. Motor license agency personnel
				  shall accept such completed and signed applications and shall send them by mail
				  to the State Election Board as outlined in
				  230:15-5-108.
(d)
Driver license change of address or
				  name.
A change of address or name for a driver license or state
				  identification card submitted in person at a motor license agency or a change
				  of address submitted online through the Department of Public Safety website
				  also shall serve as a simultaneous change of address for voter registration
				  purposes if the new address is located within the same county where the voter
				  is currently registered to vote unless the applicant opts out of voter
				  registration. However, the County Election Board shall not be authorized to
				  change the name of a registered voter based only upon an electronic submission
				  of data from the Department of Public Safety. See 230:15-5-102.1(c).
Added at 12 Ok Reg
					 2197, eff 7-1-95