Who Is Register To Vote In Ny

Register to Vote

Qualifications to Register to Vote

be a The states citizen;
be 18 years old (you may pre-register at 16 or 17 only cannot vote until you are 18);
resident of this country and the county, urban center or hamlet for at to the lowest degree 30 days before the ballot;
not be in prison for a felony confidence;
not be adjudged mentally incompetent past a court;
non claim the right to vote elsewhere.

Unsure if you are already registered to vote, please check hither.

How and Where to Annals to Vote (Deadlines)

You tin register in person at your canton board of elections or at any New York State Agency-Based voter registration center.
You may also submit your voter application form at the Department of Motor Vehicles, either in person or on their web site if you already accept DMV-issued identification.
You can request a New York State Voter Registration course by mail by inbound your proper name straight into our mailing list database.
You can telephone call our one-800-FOR-VOTE (one-800-367-8683) hotline to request a voter application.

New York Land Voter Registration Form

You may register to vote using the New York Land Voter Registration Form attainable at the links below. You can complete a PDF version of the New York State Voter Registration Form on-line by clicking on the link below, typing the necessary information and selecting the advisable boxes. Alternatively, y'all can print the form to complete by hand.
You can likewise complete an Attainable version of the New York Land Voter Registration Form on-line by clicking on the link beneath, typing the necessary information and selecting the advisable boxes.
- Accessible English Course On-line
- Accessible Spanish Course On-Line
- In one case the form is completed, yous need to impress the course and sign and date it. Then, mail the form to your county lath of elections.

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How to Brand Changes to Your Registration

Alter of Name and/or Address

The voter registration course should be used as a change of address form. Notices of change of address from registered voters received at least 20 days before a special, primary or general election by a canton board of elections must be processed and entered in the records in time for that ballot.

Alter of Party Enrollment

The voter registration form should be used to change your political party enrollment from one party to another or to enroll for the kickoff time in a party. An application to change one's party enrollment for the primary election in 2022 must be received past the board of elections no later than February xiv, 2022. Changes received on or after Feb 15th until seven days afterward the June Primary will exist gear up bated and opened the seventh day post-obit the June Master and entered in the voter's registration record. Delight see Deadlines referenced to a higher place.

How to Cancel Your Registration

In order to have your name removed from the voting rolls, pursuant to Due north.Y. Ballot Law section 5-400, you must ship a written letter of the alphabet to the local board of elections where yous lived requesting to take your registration cancelled. You must send a written alphabetic character, you cannot accomplish this via email. Contact data for all local boards is available at the county board of elections folio.

Victims of Domestic Violence

N.Y. Election Law (5-508) allows victims of domestic violence to employ for a confidential registration by delivering a sworn argument to their local county Board of Elections stating they are a victim of domestic violence and they wish to have their voter registration record kept confidential considering of the threat of physical or emotional damage to themselves or a family or household member. Their voter registration record will be kept carve up and autonomously from other registration records for 4 years and not be fabricated available for inspection or copying past the public or any other person, except election officials interim within the course and telescopic of their official duties. Nether a dissever section of the police force (xi-306), they tin also be excused from going to their polling place to vote and get a special election. For farther data, delight contact your local board of elections for their confidential registration and special ballot procedures.

New York Land Statement of Confidential Voter ( pdf 138KB)