§20505 Mail registration

Summary

A State must accept and use the mail voter registration form the Federal Election Commission creates for registering people to vote in federal elections. A State can also make its own mail form if it meets the rules in section 20508(b). Those mail forms can also be used to tell the election office about a change of address. The chief State election official must make the forms available through government and private groups, especially for organized voter registration drives. A State may require someone to vote in person if they registered by mail in that place and have never voted there before. That rule does not apply to people who can vote by absentee under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, people covered by section 20102(b)(2)(B)(ii), or others given the right to vote without going in person by any other Federal law. If a nonforwardable notice about a mail registration is returned undelivered, the registrar may follow the steps in section 20507(d).