St. Johns County Election News and Updates      September 2023 

Good morning, St. Johns County voters,

September has been a great month at the Elections Office. The office has continued preparing for the 2024 election cycle by securing polling places, developing poll worker training curriculum on a new platform, conducting poll worker orientations, and more. The GIS department has been hard at work developing new map software for our website that will make it easier for visitors to create, save, and print their own maps. There have been a lot of exciting improvements to better serve St. Johns County in 2024.

Earlier this month, I visited the Board of County Commissioners to give a brief report on the results of our biannual list maintenance this year. As a result of our biannual list maintenance activities, the registration numbers on our website decreased by over 15,000 voters. It was very important to explain what led to this decrease, as well as the changes to our procedures made by Senate Bill 7050, which took effect in July of this year.

I would like to remind voters as we rapidly approach 2024 to check their voter status on our website. With all of the growth and movement in St. Johns County, it is incredibly important to make sure your information is up to date. Many voters don’t know that they can check their status and update their information, from the comfort of their own home or mobile device at www.votesjc.gov, so I ask that you please spread the word!

Vicky Oakes

St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections

St. Johns County Citizen's Guide to Registering & Voting

This month, the 2023 St. Johns County Citizen’s Guide to Registering & Voting was mailed out to 135,000 residences in St. Johns County. The Guide is one of our most valuable resources, sharing trusted election information with not just the registered voters of St. Johns County, but every single residence. This large-scale mailing allows the Elections Office to reach residents that may not know where to find information about registering to vote, updating their information, election dates, and more.

The focus of the 2023 Citizen’s Guide is to remind the residents of St. Johns County that now is the time to get ready for the 2024 elections. We are only six months away from the first election of 2024, the Presidential Preference Primary on March 19, 2024. The Guide contains the 2024 election dates and deadlines, ways to vote and request a vote-by-mail ballot, and information about closed primaries.

A new addition to this year’s Citizen’s Guide includes a section on Election Security Safeguards. This section was especially important to remind the voters of St. Johns County that our elections are conducted securely with integrity and transparency. The Supervisor of Elections is committed to ensuring the right of every voter to cast their ballot and to know that it has been counted accurately.

The Guide hit residential mailboxes in mid-September, but if you missed it, the Guide is also available now on our website in English and Spanish.

List Maintenance Update

Have you noticed a change in our registration numbers this month?

In accordance with F.S. 98.065, the Elections Office mailed out 16,688 notices on August 4, 2023, to voters who had not voted in the last two federal general elections, 2020 and 2022, or contacted our office since November 2020. These voters had 30 days to respond to confirm that their legal address is correct or update their address, or they would be moved to the inactive list. Inactive voters are still eligible to vote, after confirming their St. Johns County address.

Based on responses received, not received, and notices returned undeliverable, the number of active voters has gone down 15,416 voters. Remember, the number on our website only reflects ACTIVE VOTERS and does not show inactive voters. For more information on list maintenance, visit our website.

St. Johns County Supervisor of Elections

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