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The Voter Promoter School District Campaign

The Voter Promoter School District Campaign is a statewide effort to encourage voter registration drives at Florida high schools. By educating students and school staff about the voter registration process and giving them a simpler means to conduct registration drives, the campaign will help increase the accessibility of Florida elections.

How it works:

The Voter Promoter School District Campaign provides materials and instructions to Florida’s 67 school districts to help each school district register as a third party voter registration organization. Under Florida's new election laws, once a school district is registered, staff and students interested in collecting voter applications will no longer need to register as third party voter registration organizations or affiliate themselves with organizations that aren’t school district-sponsored. Staff and students can simply affiliate themselves with their school district’s third party voter registration organization. Meanwhile, staff and students will be protected from potential individual fines for violating third party voter registration laws.

Process Overview:

For school districts to assist staff and students collecting voter applications, the following steps must occur:

  1. A school district must register as a third party voter registration organization by emailing (3PVRO@dos.state.fl.us) or faxing (850-245-6291) a completed DE-DE 119 form to the Florida Department of State’s Division of Elections.
  2. Students and teachers wanting to collect voter applications in affiliation with their school district’s third party voter registration organization must complete a DS-DE 120.
  3. Collected voter applications must include the school’s third party voter registration organization ID # and be turned into or mailed to an elections office within 48 hours or until the book closing date (i.e. the 29th day before an election), whichever comes first.
  4. The school district must file monthly reports accounting for its voter application forms.

To view a more detailed fact sheet, please click here.

For complete information on third party voter registration, please click here.

Third Party Voter Organization Requirements:

Florida law requires anyone collecting voter applications to be registered as or with a third party voter registration organization, unless the applications being collected are from a person’s immediate family. After applications are collected, they must be turned in or mailed to an elections office within 48 hours or until the book closing date (i.e. the 29th day before an election), whichever comes first.