§20505 Mail Registration

Summary

States must accept and use the mail voter registration form the Federal Election Commission creates for registering voters in federal elections. A state may also make its own mail form if it follows the rules in section 20508(b). Those forms must also be used when a registrant tells the state they moved. The chief state election official must make the forms available through government and private groups, especially for organized voter registration drives. A state can require someone who registered by mail but never voted in that place to vote in person, except for people covered by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, by section 20102(b)(2)(B)(ii), or by other federal law. If a nonforwardable notice about a mail registration is returned undelivered, the registrar may follow the steps in section 20507(d).