Can We Still Register To Vote

To register to vote you must:

be a U.Southward. citizen;
be 17 years one-time (16 years old if registering in person at the Registrar of Voters Office or at the Louisiana Office of Motor Vehicles), but must be eighteen years old to vote;
not be under an order of imprisonment for conviction of a felony or, if under such an gild non accept been incarcerated pursuant to the order inside the last five years and non be under an guild of imprisonment related to a felony conviction for election fraud or whatsoever other ballot crime pursuant to La. R.Southward. 18:1461.2;
not exist nether a judgment of full interdiction for mental incompetence or partial interdiction with break of voting rights;
reside in the state and parish in which you seek to register; and
must be registered at least twenty days prior to an election if registering through our GeauxVote Online Registration Arrangement with a Louisiana commuter's license or Louisiana special ID bill of fare or 30 days prior to an election if registering in person or by mail to exist eligible to vote in that particular election. If mailing in an application, the application or envelope must be postmarked thirty days prior to the showtime election in which you seek to vote.

View special provisions for military and overseas voters.

All voter registration information and applications of persons who are 16 or 17 years of age are confidential. For all other registered voters, the post-obit information is confidential:

driver's license number;
social security number;
day and calendar month of voter'southward birth;
female parent's maiden name;

email address;
text message service; and
if voter is entitled to help in voting.

Annals Online

Registering to vote or changing your registration is easy using the GeauxVote Online Registration System.

For security reasons, this awarding volition fourth dimension out if you remain idle for more than five minutes. All information will be cleared, and you will have to first the application over from the beginning.

Once you lot have completed the application, you volition be immune to either print and mail your application, or if verified by the Office of Motor Vehicles, submit your awarding electronically. If yous plan to submit electronically, you must have your Louisiana driver's license or Louisiana special ID carte du jour in mitt when you brainstorm the process. There is an audit lawmaking on the card that you lot must enter. The audit code is a four digit number labeled AUDIT on the front of the license.

NOTE: A Louisiana mobility impaired carte du jour is non an adequate class of identification since it does not contain a signature.

The Function of Motor Vehicles performs organization maintenance from 1-4 a.k. daily. During this time, y'all may non be able to complete processing electronically, but the impress and mail functions will remain available.

Please note that if you lot fill out an online application, but print and mail information technology to the ROV, it must be postmarked xxx days prior to the outset election in which y'all seek to vote.

Apply in person to register to vote at any Registrar of Voters Office.

You may also register in person at whatsoever of the following locations:

Louisiana Part of Motor Vehicles;
Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services;
WIC offices;
nutrient postage stamp offices;
Medicaid offices;
offices serving persons with disabilities such as the Deaf Activeness Centers and Independent Living Offices; or
Armed forces recruitment offices.

If registering in person at a parish Registrar of Voters Office, you are required to prove age, residency and identity. You must submit your current Louisiana driver'south license, if you have 1, or your birth certificate or other documentation which reasonably and sufficiently establishes your identity, age and residency.

If y'all have no driver'south license, special Louisiana ID or social security number, you may provide a pic ID, a utility nib, payroll check or government certificate that includes your name and address.

If registering at a mandated site, no further proof of identification is required other than whatever proof is required for services received that you take applied for at the public agency.

Use past mail service past downloading the Louisiana Voter Registration Application, completing information technology and mailing information technology to your local Registrar of Voters Office. Please note that the list of offices for registrars of voters is also included on the form.

You may too annals by using a National Mail Voter Registration Course.

Faxed voter registration forms are not accepted. The voter registration grade should exist addressed and mailed or manus-delivered to the appropriate registrar of voters in the parish in which you are registering. Deadlines requiring receipt in the Registrar of Voters Part may be missed if you exercise non postal service direct to the registrar of voters in your parish. You must be registered at least 20 days prior to an ballot if registering through our GeauxVote Online Registration Arrangement with a Louisiana driver'due south license or Louisiana special ID card or 30 days prior to an election if registering in person or by postal service to be eligible to vote in that particular election. (If mailing in an application, the awarding or envelope must be postmarked thirty days prior to the first ballot in which you seek to vote.)

The registrar of voters mails a verification mailing carte du jour to verify the address y'all have provided when registering past postal service. If y'all practise not receive a mailing from the registrar of voters within two weeks of registering, delight contact their part.

Registration Facts

In order to be eligible to vote in Louisiana for a particular election, you lot must exist registered at to the lowest degree 20 days prior to an ballot if registering through our GeauxVote Online Registration Organization with a Louisiana driver's license or Louisiana special ID card or 30 days prior to an election if registering in person or by mail. (If mailing in an application, the application or envelope must exist postmarked 30 days prior to the first election in which yous seek to vote.)

No cost is associated with registering to vote. It is a correct afforded to yous every bit a United States denizen past the U.Due south. Constitution.

You must qualify to register with a residence address in the parish with a street or rural route accost. Post office box addresses and mail service center boxes do not authorize. The registrar of voters must know where you live so you are assigned to the proper voting precinct for Election Day. If you have multiple residences and merits a homestead exemption, yous must register to vote using your homestead exemption address; however, if you practice not merits homestead exemption and reside at more than one identify in the country with an intention to reside there indefinitely, y'all may choose to register but at one of the places at which you reside. However, there is an exception in the law for a person who resides in a nursing home or in a veterans' home. They may register and vote at the accost where the nursing habitation or veterans' home is located, even though they take a homestead exemption on their residence.

Displaced voters: If you lot were involuntarily displaced to a new parish or state due to a gubernatorially declared emergency, but want to remain registered to vote at your pre-emergency accost, you may remain registered there if you accept not changed your registration accost or filed a homestead exemption on a different residence. You should provide a mailing address, if different from your pre-emergency residence accost, to your registrar of voters to remain an active voter.

Moved: If y'all take changed residence inside your parish after registering to vote, y'all should notify the registrar of voters in your parish of any changes to your registration or make changes online.

If you accept changed residence outside your parish afterward registering to vote, you are only eligible to remain registered and to vote in that parish for three months prior to an election. You must register in your new parish.

Once y'all are registered in your parish, you volition remain registered as an agile voter. If you motility and your residence address is non able to be verified through the U.S. Postal Service during the annual canvas or you do not return the address confirmation carte du jour issued during the annual canvass to all voters who have moved or whose address cannot be verified, y'all will be placed on inactive status. You can actuate your status by verifying your residence address online with a change of address or in person either on Election Day before voting or at the Registrar of Voters Part by completing an address confirmation card. If you practise not verify your address and practice non vote in two federal general elections, you may be canceled. Y'all may also be suspended or canceled if yous lose your civil rights or register to vote in another state. Your registration cannot be canceled betwixt primary and general elections unless the registration was fraudulently placed on the registration records or if you lot are canceled pursuant to the almanac canvass conducted by the registrar of voters. A person whose registration has been canceled is non permitted to vote until they submit a new registration to the registrar of voters.

A modify of name can be made online or in person by a voter registration application stating the name under which the person desires to be registered. A person who changes their name by virtue of a judgment of court shall file with the registrar of voters a certified re-create of the judgment.