You must provide your current and valid driver’s license number (from your state), an ID number or the last 4 digits of your Social Security number to register. If you have none of these numbers, you must write “NONE” on the voter registration form.
If you register by mail and you are a first-time voter in the State and you have not been issued a Florida driver’s license number, Florida I.D. number, or a Social Security number you are required to provide additional identification. To assure that you will not have problems when you go to vote, you should provide a copy of the required identification at the time you mail your voter registration form. If you are voting an absentee ballot, you must provide the proper identification prior to 7 p.m. Election Day or your absentee ballot will not count. The following forms of identification are acceptable if they contain your name and photograph:
- United States passport
- Debit of credit card
- Military identification
- Student identification
- Retirement center identification
- Neighborhood association identification
- Public assistance Identification
- Gun License
Do not send original identification documents to the supervisor of elections.
The following persons are not required to provide the identification required under the previous paragraph:
- Persons 65 years of age or older
- Persons with a temporary or permanent physical disability
- Members of the uniformed services on active duty and their spouses and dependents, who, by reason of such active duty, are absent from the county on Election Day
- Members of the Merchant Marine and their spouses and dependents, who, by reason of service in the Merchant Marine, are absent from the county on Election Day
