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Register to Vote or Update Your Registration

About this form

This form is for eligible Minnesota residents to register to vote. Learn about your eligibility to vote

If you are a participant in Minnesota's Safe at Home Address Confidentiality Program, do not use this form. Contact Safe at Home at 1-866-723-3035.

You must answer all questions in order to register. You have 10 minutes to complete each step of this application. If you do not finish a step within that time, you will start over at Step 1.

Step 1. Eligibility

Are you a U.S. citizen?

What if I will be a citizen soon?

Only U.S. citizens may register to vote. If you applied for citizenship, wait until you get your Certification of Naturalization before you register to vote.

Are you at least 16 years old and will you be at least 18 years old on or before the day of the election in which you intend to vote? View Minnesota's election calendar

Step 2. Your name, ID and contact information

Name
Examples: Sr., Jr., IV

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Apostrophes: '
Update your name (for voters who are already registered)
Previous name
Examples: Sr., Jr., IV

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Apostrophes: '
Date of birth

Use numbers in the month, day and year format: zero one, thrity-one, nineteen eighty for January 31, 1980, for example.

ID number Privacy notice

Enter the number of your Minnesota driver's license or state ID card.

If you do not have a Minnesota ID, enter the last 4 digits of your Social Security number.

I do not have a Minnesota ID or Social Security number

If you do not have an ID issued by Minnesota or a Social Security number, you cannot register online. Other ways to register to vote

Contact information Privacy notice

Your email will not be available to anyone outside the Minnesota Secretary of State's office and local election offices. If you do not want to use your email, you can complete and submit the paper version of this form instead. Voter registration applications

Step 3. Your residence address

To make sure you vote in the right place, you must give the street address of where you live. If you have a different mailing address such as a post office box, you'll be able to enter it later.

Your street address

Find your street address starting with either your ZIP Code or county.

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Forward slashes: /

I cannot find my street

If you do not see your street listed:

  • Search for variations of your street's name or spelling (for example, Hwy 7 instead of Broadway).
  • Verify that you either entered the correct ZIP Code or selected the correct county, city and ZIP Code.
  • If you entered anything incorrectly, change your entries or selections.

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Forward slashes: /
Previous address

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Forward slashes: /

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Apostrophes: '
  • Commas: ,
  • Periods: .
  • Number signs: #
  • Forward slashes: /

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Forward slashes: /

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Apostrophes: '
  • Commas: ,
  • Periods: .
  • Number signs: #
  • Forward slashes: /

Step 4. Review

Review your voter registration application. If you need to make changes to any of your responses, return to the beginning of the application to make edits.

To help protect your privacy, not all data is displayed.

Name
Residential address
Mail service

I CANNOT receive mail at this address

Check this box if the postal service does not deliver mail door-to-door where you live. Do NOT check this box if the postal service would deliver to your residence, but you choose to get mail sent to a post office box.

Post Office Box address

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Apostrophes: '
  • Commas: ,
  • Periods: .
  • Number signs: #
  • Forward slashes: /

What characters can I enter?

  • Letters A to Z, uppercase or lowercase. Do not use letters with accents or diacritics (such as E with an accute accent or N with a tilde) or non-English characters (such as Cyrillic letters or Chinese characters).
  • Numbers: zero through nine
  • Spaces
  • Hyphens: -
  • Apostrophes: '
  • Commas: ,
  • Periods: .
  • Number signs: #
  • Forward slashes: /
Birth year
ID number type
Email
Phone number