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How to Change Your Name or Party Affiliation

Last updated 5/28/08

You can submit changes to your name or party affiliation by filling out a Florida Voter Registration Application, which is available at

If you are changing your name, mark the Name Change box on the registration form and indicate your previous name in the appropriate place. Also be sure that you sign the form with your new name, not your old one.

Your party affiliation can be changed to any political party registered with the Secretary of State's Office, or to no party. As of May 22, 2008, the state recognizes two major political parties, the Democratic and Republican Parties, and the following minor parties:

• America First Party
• American Party
• American Poor People Party
• American Reform Party
• British Reformed Sectarian Party
• Christian Party
• Constitution Party
• Ecology Party
• Faith and Patience Party
• Family Values Party
• Green Party
• Independence Party
• Independent Party
• Independent Democrats
• Libertarian Party
• Moderate Party
• Party for Socialism and Liberation
• Possibility Party
• Progressive Libertarian Party
• Prohibition Party
• Real Food Party
• Reform Party
• Socialist Party
• Socialist Workers Party
• Southern Party
• Surfers Party of America
• Term Limits for the US Congress Party
• Unity08
• Veterans Party
• Whig Party

(For information about the parties, go to the How to Contact Political Parties page.)

You can change your party affiliation at any time, but if you change it when the registration books are closed for an election (within 29 days of an election), the change will not take effect until after the election. To change your party affiliation, mark the Party Change box on the registration form and check or write in the party to which you are changing your affiliation.

Florida is a closed primary state. This means that in partisan primary elections, you can only vote in races of the party in which you are registered. Thus, if you are not registered in a party that has primary races on the ballot, you can only vote on any nonpartisan offices or questions in a primary election. The exception to this is the case in which the only candidates who qualify for an office are from one political party; in this situation, all voters are eligible to vote on the contest -- this is called an Universal Primary. All registered voters can vote on all offices in a General Election, regardless of party affiliation.