OKLAHOMA CITY — Voters who receive an Address Confirmation Notice from the State Election Board have 60 days to respond.
Starting in early May, 326,603 registered voters received one of the notices, which are required by state law.
State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax encourages voters to respond as quickly as possible if they receive the notice. “It takes just a couple of minutes to confirm or update your registration. The easiest way to respond is online through the OK Voter Portal. You also can fill out the card and mail it back to us – postage paid,” Ziriax said.
Voters who don’t respond and confirm their address within 60 days will be designated as “inactive” and are required by law to be removed from voter rolls after the 2026 General Election. “Inactive” voters can reverse their status and avoid removal by updating their voter registration or by voting in any election on or before the 2026 General Election.
Not every voter will receive an address confirmation notice – only those who meet one of several reasons specified by state statute.
Voters receiving an address confirmation notice include those with a possible duplicate registration in Oklahoma or another state, persons who have not voted or updated their registration through the 2020 and 2022 General Election cycles.
It also includes voters who have had a first-class mailing returned as “undeliverable.” A new law that went into effect Jan. 1, 2023, requires voter identification cards to be sent to a voter’s residence address. A voter who in the past received mailings from their county election board at a post office box may have had a first-class mailing returned as “undeliverable,” State Election Board Public Information Officer Misha Mohr said.
Address confirmation notices have played a vital role in keeping voter registration rolls clean and have been required by law for almost three decades, Ziriax said.
Additionally, election officials conduct monthly maintenance – required by law – using information provided by authorized sources such as felony convictions from courts and death records from the State Department of Health.
Voters who have specific questions regarding their registration should contact their county election board, Mohr advised.