No. HB 985
Filed under Elections.
Voter Registration and Identification; Requires supervisor of elections to verify applicant’s citizenship status & refer certain matters to Office of Election Crimes & Security; provides certain action is considered written request from voter to have his or her name removed from statewide voter registration system; revises identifications accepted at polling places; requires that certain electors show Florida ID card upon entering polling place; provides that certain noncitizens may vote provisional ballot; requires supervisor of elections to verify certain information upon receiving request for vote-by-mail ballot; requires certain licenses & ID cards to denote certain persons as noncitizens.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDAnyone who registers to vote using a driver's license or ID number gets checked against motor vehicle citizenship records; anyone registering with a Social Security number gets checked through a federal immigration-status database. Either way, an unconfirmed applicant must supply proof of citizenship.
Getting a driver's license in another state now counts, by itself, as a written request to be removed from Florida's voter rolls, with no separate action or notice from the voter described in the text.
Student, retirement-center, and neighborhood-association identification cards no longer count as valid ID at the polls. Anyone who registered using a Florida ID card must bring that same card to vote, and a card marked as a noncitizen's forces a provisional ballot.
Noncitizens' Florida driver's licenses and ID cards must now carry an NC mark on the front. Mail-ballot voters registered with a Florida ID card face a separate citizenship, address, and surrender check before their ballot is issued.
AIIf an applicant registers with a driver license or ID number, the supervisor must confirm through motor vehicle records that the number is classified as a citizen's. If registering by Social Security number instead, the supervisor must run a federal SAVE-program check. Either way, an unverified applicant must supply proof of citizenship.
AILearning that a registered Florida voter has gotten a driver's license in another state is now legally treated as though that voter personally wrote in asking to be removed from Florida's voter rolls, with no separate voter action required.
AIIf the photo ID a voter presents at the polls carries the new noncitizen marking created by this bill, that alone requires the voter to cast a provisional ballot, the same as failing to show any ID at all.
AIA voter registered with a Florida ID card who requests a vote-by-mail ballot now triggers a supervisor citizenship check. If citizenship cannot be verified, the voter must produce proof before a ballot is issued.
AIAny Florida driver's license or identification card issued or reissued to someone who is not a citizen must display the letters NC on the front of the card, a visible noncitizen designation carried in a person's wallet.
AIIf a supervisor determines an applicant made false affirmations on a voter registration application, the matter must now be sent to the Office of Election Crimes and Security rather than handled locally.
AIStudent identification, retirement center identification, and neighborhood association identification are removed from the list of picture IDs accepted at the polls, narrowing what a voter without a driver license or passport can present.
AIA voter who registered using a Florida identification card, rather than a driver license, must bring and present that same identification card upon entering the polling place, not just any other accepted photo ID.