How Do I Change Where I Am Registered To Vote

Register to Vote

Qualifications to Register to Vote

exist a United States citizen;
be eighteen years old (y'all may pre-register at sixteen or 17 but cannot vote until you lot are xviii);
resident of this country and the county, urban center or village for at least 30 days before the election;
not be in prison for a felony conviction;
non exist adjudged mentally incompetent by a court;
not claim the right to vote elsewhere.

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How and Where to Register to Vote (Deadlines)

Yous tin register in person at your county board of elections or at any New York State Bureau-Based voter registration center.
Y'all may also submit your voter awarding course at the Department of Motor Vehicles, either in person or on their web site if you already take DMV-issued identification.
You can request a New York State Voter Registration class by mail service by inbound your name direct into our mailing listing database.
You can phone call our ane-800-FOR-VOTE (ane-800-367-8683) hotline to request a voter awarding.

New York State Voter Registration Form

Yous may register to vote using the New York Country Voter Registration Form accessible at the links below. Y'all tin can consummate 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 appropriate boxes. Alternatively, y'all can print the course to consummate past hand.
You tin also complete an Accessible version of the New York State Voter Registration Form on-line past clicking on the link below, typing the necessary information and selecting the appropriate boxes.
- Accessible English Course On-line
- Accessible Spanish Form On-Line
- One time the form is completed, you need to print the form and sign and date information technology. Then, mail the form to your county lath of elections.

Adobe Acrobat (PDF)

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How to Make Changes to Your Registration

Modify of Proper name and/or Address

The voter registration course should be used equally a change of address form. Notices of change of address from registered voters received at least twenty days earlier a special, chief or general election by a county board of elections must exist processed and entered in the records in time for that election.

Change of Political party Enrollment

The voter registration form should be used to change your party enrollment from one party to some other or to enroll for the beginning time in a party. An application to change one's political party enrollment for the primary ballot in 2022 must be received by the board of elections no afterwards than Feb 14, 2022. Changes received on or afterward February 15th until seven days subsequently the June Principal will be set aside and opened the seventh day post-obit the June Chief and entered in the voter'due south registration record. Delight see Deadlines referenced higher up.

How to Cancel Your Registration

In order to have your proper name removed from the voting rolls, pursuant to N.Y. Election Police section 5-400, you must send a written letter of the alphabet to the local board of elections where y'all lived requesting to accept your registration cancelled. You must ship a written letter, y'all cannot accomplish this via e-mail. Contact information for all local boards is available at the county board of elections page.

Victims of Domestic Violence

N.Y. Election Law (v-508) allows victims of domestic violence to apply for a confidential registration past delivering a sworn statement to their local county Board of Elections stating they are a victim of domestic violence and they wish to have their voter registration tape kept confidential considering of the threat of physical or emotional impairment to themselves or a family unit or household member. Their voter registration record will be kept split up and apart from other registration records for four years and non exist made available for inspection or copying by the public or any other person, except election officials acting within the course and scope of their official duties. Under a separate section of the police (xi-306), they can too be excused from going to their polling place to vote and get a special ballot. For further information, please contact your local board of elections for their confidential registration and special ballot procedures.

New York Country Argument of Confidential Voter ( pdf 138KB)