Voter Registration in St. Lucie County, Florida

Florida law makes any Supervisor of Elections office, the state Division of Elections, a driver license office, a voter registration agency or an armed forces recruitment office accept a registration application, whether hand delivered or mailed (Florida Statutes 97.053).

Locally, the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections offers three routes: an online application, a mailed paper application, or an application handed in at one of its offices in Fort Pierce or Port St. Lucie (Register to Vote page). The office guide adds that the online form needs a Florida driver license or Florida ID number along with the last four digits of the Social Security number, and that a paper application can be requested by phone at 772-462-1500 (2026 Voter Information Guide).

Driver license offices are built into the system by Florida Statutes 97.057: anyone applying for or renewing a license or ID card, or changing the address on one, must be offered the chance to register or update a record, and the examiner asks the question out loud or, for an applicant who is hearing impaired, in writing (Florida Statutes 97.057). The St. Lucie County guide points to the same option, saying residents may register when they apply for or renew a Florida driver license (Voter Information Guide). Voter registration agencies, which include public libraries, must give the same opportunity when someone applies for services, renews them or changes an address, and an agency other than a library hands out a form asking whether the applicant wants to register or update (Florida Statutes 97.058).

An application filed with the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections counts as complete only with the name, legal residence address, date of birth, a citizenship checkbox, an ID number, the felony and mental incapacity checkboxes and a signature under oath (Florida Statutes 97.053).

Each row restates Florida Statutes 97.053, the rule the Supervisor of Elections in Fort Pierce follows. The uniform statewide form itself is also designed to ask for further items, among them a mailing address if different, an email address and whether the applicant wants sample ballots by email, race or ethnicity, state or country of birth, sex, party affiliation, whether the applicant needs help voting, and the name and address where last registered, with the telephone number marked optional (Florida Statutes 97.052). An applicant who leaves party affiliation blank is registered without party affiliation, and the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections must tell the voter so by mail (F.S. 97.053).

For a new St. Lucie County registration, the date a signed application is postmarked or hand delivered to the Supervisor of Elections or another voter registration agency becomes the registration date (Register to Vote page).

Florida Statutes 97.053 fills in the edge cases the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections applies. A hand delivered application dates from the day any supervisor's office in the state, the Division of Elections, a driver license office, a voter registration agency or an armed forces recruitment office receives it; a mailed one with a clear postmark dates from the postmark (Florida Statutes 97.053). A mailed application with no postmark, or an unclear one, dates from the day a supervisor or the division receives it, unless it arrives within 5 days after books close, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, in which case the registration date is the book closing date.

Book closing itself falls on the 29th day before each election under Florida Statutes 97.055, and the St. Lucie County guide says registrations or party changes received after that deadline are processed and a voter information card is mailed after the election (Florida Statutes 97.055; Voter Information Guide). The Register to Vote page cautions that submitting the form does not by itself make someone a registered voter; the Supervisor of Elections processes it and then mails a card with the precinct number and location (Register to Vote page).

The Supervisor of Elections notifies the applicant, who must supply evidence that the driver license, Florida ID or Social Security digits are authentic; until then, a trip to the polls means a provisional ballot (Florida Statutes 97.053).

Under Florida Statutes 97.053(6), every new application and every change of name, address or party is accepted only after the Department of State verifies the number given. When the applicant supplies the evidence, the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections places the name on the rolls as an active voter (F.S. 97.053).

A separate rule in Florida Statutes 97.0535 covers people in Fort Pierce, Port St. Lucie or anywhere else in the state who register by mail, have never voted in Florida, and were found to have no Florida driver license, Florida ID or Social Security number: they provide a copy of a current photo ID such as a U.S. passport, a debit or credit card, a military or student ID, or a document showing name and current address such as a utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck before voting the first time (Florida Statutes 97.0535). The statute exempts people 65 or older, people with a temporary or permanent physical disability, certain uniformed service and Merchant Marine members absent on election day and their spouses or dependents, and eligible Florida voters living outside the United States. The St. Lucie County provisional ballot rules say a first-time voter who registered by mail without the required identification is asked to vote provisionally (provisional ballot page).

An address change inside Florida can reach the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections by phone, fax, email, mail, online or in person, while a name or party change takes a new voter registration application (Voter Information Guide; Florida Statutes 97.1031).

Florida Statutes 97.1031 lets a voter who moves within the state report the new address to the supervisor of the county moved to by telephone or electronic means, giving the date of birth plus the last four Social Security digits, the Florida driver license number or the Florida ID number, or by a signed written notice (F.S. 97.1031). The Supervisor of Elections then issues a new voter information card. The St. Lucie County guide explains why the address matters: the residence address determines the correct ballot, and a voter must vote in the precinct assigned to that residence (Voter Information Guide).

Signatures are the other record to keep current. The St. Lucie County guide says the signature on file is used to check vote-by-mail ballots, provisional ballots and petitions, which are not valid if the signature does not match, and that a name or signature update is made by submitting a voter registration application, which may be printed and mailed to the office (Voter Information Guide). The online application on the Supervisor of Elections site handles signature, name, address and party updates and replaces a defaced, lost or stolen voter information card (Register to Vote page).

Yes, because Florida runs closed primaries, so only voters registered in a party can vote in that party's primary for partisan candidates, according to the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections (Voter Information Guide).

The St. Lucie County guide asks voters to check the party printed on their voter information card at least 29 days before any primary, and says party changes are made online or at any office on a Florida Voter Registration Application before book closing (Voter Information Guide). Florida Statutes 97.055 adds that a party change made while the books are closed counts for the upcoming election unless that election nominates a party's candidates, in which case it counts only later (F.S. 97.055).

Two exceptions open a primary ballot to everyone registered with the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections. A universal primary occurs when all candidates for an office are from the same party and no opposition will appear in the general election, and nonpartisan items such as judicial and school board offices, special districts or local referendums are open to all registered voters, including those with no party (closed and universal primary page). The St. Lucie County guide names judges, school board members and City of Fort Pierce and City of Port St. Lucie contests among those nonpartisan races (Voter Information Guide).

The Voter Status page on the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections site looks up a record and shows the Election Day polling place, a sample ballot, upcoming elections and mail ballot status (Voter Status page).

The same St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections tool lets a voter review or update registration information, request a vote-by-mail ballot, review voting activity for the past 12 months and find elected representatives (Voter Status page). The office guide says a lost or stolen voter information card is replaced by submitting a Florida Voter Registration Application, and that replacement cards are mailed automatically when a polling place or precinct changes (Voter Information Guide).

Qualifications sit in Florida Statutes 97.041: a person registers only at 18 or older, as a U.S. citizen and a legal resident of Florida and of the county, with preregistration allowed from the 16th birthday and voting from the 18th, and the statute states that a person who is not registered may not vote (Florida Statutes 97.041). Branch office addresses and the list of accepted photo ID sit in the county Supervisor of Elections guide on this site. Last verified: October 22, 2026, for St. Lucie County against the Supervisor of Elections registration, voter status, provisional ballot and closed primary pages, the 2026 guide, and Florida Statutes 97.041, 97.052, 97.053, 97.0535, 97.055, 97.057, 97.058 and 97.1031.