EAIElectoral Access Index

§ 106.24 creates the Florida Elections Commission as a 'separate budget entity' independent of executive control, with statutory enforcement authority over Ch. 104 and 106 violations.

“There is created within the Department of Legal Affairs, Office of the Attorney General, a Florida Elections Commission, hereinafter referred to as the commission.”

§ 98.045 governs eligibility administration; § 97.021 codifies age (18), citizenship, residency framework. Florida Constitution Art VI § 2 fixes constitutional age requirement.

“The supervisor must ensure that any eligible applicant for voter registration is registered to vote”

Florida Constitution Art VI § 4 codifies the disqualification framework: felony conviction OR mental incompetence adjudication, with restoration mechanism. § 98.0751 statutorily implements restoration. Ordinal 3/3 — both constitutional and statutory grounding.

“No person convicted of a felony, or adjudicated in this or any other state to be mentally incompetent, shall be qualified to vote or hold office until restoration of civil rights or removal of disability.”

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

§ 97.0535 statutorily grounds the voter-ID regime with explicit acceptable-ID enumeration triggered by HAVA matching requirements.

“Each applicant who registers by mail and who has never previously voted in the state and who the department has verified has not been issued a current and valid Florida driver license, Florida identification card, or social security number”

§ 97.0535 enumerates the acceptable identification documents for HAVA-required ID verification: Florida DL, FL ID card, SSN, plus enumerated alternative documentation in (1)(b).

“Florida driver license, Florida identification card, or social security number”

§ 101.048 provides provisional-ballot alternative for those without acceptable ID at the polls, partially addressing the free-alternative-ID criterion (no explicit free-ID issuance, but cost-free pathway to cast a vote).

“At all elections, a voter claiming to be properly registered in the state and eligible to vote at the precinct in the election but whose eligibility cannot be determined”

§ 101.048 codifies at-polls cure via provisional ballot. § 101.49 covers signature-mismatch cure procedure. Strong at-polls cure regime.

§ 101.048 ensures voters disputed at the polls cast a provisional ballot subject to later eligibility determination. § 98.0755 provides circuit court appeal of supervisor ineligibility determinations.

“shall be entitled to vote a provisional ballot”

§ 97.053 governs acceptance and processing of voter registration. § 97.055 (not surfaced) fixes the 29-day-before-election registration deadline in Florida.

“Voter registration applications, changes in registration, and requests for a replacement voter information card must be accepted in the office of any supervisor”

§ 97.0525 + § 97.057 enumerate registration methods: online registration, DMV-based registration (motor-voter), supervisor-of-elections offices, by mail. Comprehensive multi-channel codification.

“An applicant may submit an online voter registration application using the procedures set forth in this section.”

§ 101.68 + § 102.168 contest of election partially codify cure: signature mismatch on vote-by-mail triggers cure-affidavit procedure; election contest provides judicial cure for systemic registration issues. Not a dedicated registration-cure procedure though.

“the supervisor shall compare the signature of the elector on the voter’s certificate with the signature of the elector”

§ 98.0755 grants explicit circuit-court appeal right for ineligibility determinations. § 102.168 provides broader election-contest pathway.

“Appeal of the supervisor’s determination of ineligibility pursuant to s. 98.075 (7) may be taken to the circuit court in and for the county where the person was registered.”

§ 98.065 mandates an NVRA-compliant list maintenance program with enumerated criteria; § 98.0655 prescribes specific forms (address-confirmation, etc.) for maintenance. Ordinal 2/2 — both statutory and procedural specificity.

“The supervisor must conduct a general registration list maintenance program to protect the integrity of the electoral process by ensuring the maintenance of accurate and current voter registration records”

§ 97.073 codifies the pre-purge / disposition notice regime: notification within 5 business days. § 98.065 (REG.5) adds address-confirmation cure period before removal.

“The supervisor must notify each applicant of the disposition of the applicant’s voter registration application within 5 business days after voter registration information is entered into the statewide voter registration system”

§ 97.0585 codifies voter-data confidentiality and exempts protected registration information from public-records disclosure. § 98.093 governs official information-sharing for roll integrity.

“The following information held by an agency, as defined in s. 119.011 , and obtained for the purpose of voter registration is confidential and exempt from s. 119.07 (1)”

§ 101.2515 codifies language-assistance for ballot issues. Supervisors of elections may request DoS translation in any minority language for which a county is a VRA covered jurisdiction.

“Upon the request of a supervisor of elections made no later than 60 days prior to the date of a general election, the Department of State shall provide a written translation of a statewide ballot issue in the language of any language minority”

§ 101.662 + § 101.661 codify comprehensive disability-assistance: accessibility of vote-by-mail ballots and in-polling-place assistance from a person of the elector's choice (blindness, disability, or inability to read or write).

“It is the intent of the Legislature that voting by vote-by-mail ballot be by methods that are fully accessible to all voters, including voters having a disability.”

§ 97.061 codifies special registration for electors unable to read or write — explicit illiteracy-assistance procedure.

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

§ 101.6951 + Ch. 101 Part V (vote-by-mail) codify comprehensive mail-in voting procedure for any voter (no excuse required) including overseas voters via UOCAVA.

“An overseas voter may request, not earlier than 180 days before a general election, a state write-in vote-by-mail ballot”

§ 101.698 + § 101.694 codify absentee voting framework including UOCAVA federal postcard application processing.

“If a national or local emergency or other situation arises which makes substantial compliance with the provisions of state or federal law relating to the methods of voting for overseas voters impossible or unreasonable”

§ 101.657 codifies the early voting period: mandatory early voting in supervisor-of-elections offices; designated period in statute.

“As a convenience to the voter, the supervisor of elections shall allow an elector to vote early in the main or branch office of the supervisor.”

No candidate sections returned by FTS.

§ 101.049 codifies provisional-ballot procedure for after-hours voting under court order. § 101.048 provides the general provisional-ballot framework for any disputed eligibility.

“Any person who votes in an election after the regular poll-closing time pursuant to a court or other order extending the statutory polling hours must vote a provisional ballot.”