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Webpage last updated: April 11, 2024

Adopted Rules

Visit the Florida Administrative Code and Florida Administrative Register's homepage to sign up for notices of rulemaking and to view current and past Division of Elections’ Rules within these three chapters.

• Chapter 1S-2 - Elections
• Chapter 1S-5 - Certification of Electronic Electromechanical Voting Systems
• Chapter 1S-9 - Elections Emergency Contingency Plan

Visit our Forms Incorporated in Rule page for forms incorporated into current rules.

Emergency Rules

No emergency rules at this time.

Proposed Rules and Rule Changes 

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Rule 1S-2.015 Minimum Security Procedures

• Notice of Rule Development – Workshop held on May 5, 2022
• Proposed Rule Revision
• Proposed DS-DE XXX Minimum Security Procedures Standards and Compliance Checklist

Rule 1S-2.027 Standards for Determining Voter's Choice on a Ballot

• Notice of Rule Development – Workshop held on January 1, 2024
  • Coded text
  • DS-DE 420 (proposed incorporated form)

Rule 1S-2.034 Polling Place Procedures Manual

• Notice of Rule Development (Fla. Admin. Register) - Workshop held on March 25, 2024
  • Proposed Rule Text
  • DS-DE 11 Polling Place Procedures Manual

Rule 1S-2.040 Statewide Voter Registration Application

• Filed for adoption (eff. 04/24/2024): See Fla. Admin. Code
• Notice of Change with rule text (Fla. Admin. Register)
  • DS-DE 39 Statewide Voter Registration Application
• Notice of Meeting/Public Hearing – Hearing held on January 18, 2024
  • For coded rule text and proposed form, see links below under Notice of Proposed Rule
• Notice of Proposed Rule with coded text – Rule hearing scheduled for January 9, 2024, was canceled due to state office closures in Panhandle for inclement weather – to be rescheduled.
  • DS-DE 39 (proposed form)
• Notice of Rule Development – Workshop held on October 11, 2023
  • Coded text
  • Proposed DS-DE 39 Statewide Voter Registration Application
• Notice of Rule Development  (including coded text) – Workshop held on June 6, 2022
  • Proposed DS-DE 39 Statewide Voter Registration Application

Rule 1S-2.052 Delivery of Vote-by-Mail Ballots

• Notice of Proposed Rule with coded text (Fla. Admin. Register) Workshop held on April 9, 2024
  • DS-DE 162 Vote-by-Mail Delivery Form

• Notice of Meeting/Public Hearing – Rule hearing held, February 20, 2024
  
  • Coded text
  • Proposed DS-DE 162

Rule 1S-2.055 Vote-by-Mail Requests

• Filed for adoption (eff. 04/17/2024): See Fla. Admin. Code
• Notice of Change (coded text) (12/21/2023)
  • DS-DE 160 Statewide Vote-by-Mail Request Form (update)
• 2^nd Notice of Proposed Rule (including proposed rule revision) - Rule hearing held November 1, 2023 
  • DS-DE 160 Statewide Vote-by-Mail Request Form (revised)
• Notice of Proposed Rule (including proposed rule revision) - Rule hearing held on September 8, 2023
  • DS-DE 160 Statewide Vote-by-Mail Request Form
• Notice of Rule Development (with proposed text) – Workshop held on July 10, 2023
  • Proposed statewide form

Rule 1S-2.056 Signature Matching and Verification 

• Notice of Rule Development with coded text - (Fla. Admin. Register) Workshop held on March 25, 2024
  • Proposed rule text