Florida now offering online voter registration

Florida recently joined 35 other states offering online voter registration to its residents with the launch of RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov. The website was created to comply with a 2015 law that required online registration to be available by October 1.

Florida residents can register to vote at the website or update their current registrations, or they can fill out and print a registration form that must be turned in to a local supervisor of elections. Voters will need a Florida driver's license or state identification card and the last four digits of their Social Security number to submit their register online.

Voting is a right in our country through which we are called to exercise faithful citizenship. The bishops encourage all persons who are eligible to vote to take the steps necessary to register.