---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 20504"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "20504"
heading: "Simultaneous application for voter registration and application for motor vehicle driver’s license"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/20504"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 205 — National Voter Registration"
---

# §20504. Simultaneous application for voter registration and application for motor vehicle driver’s license

- (a) **In general—**
  - (1) Each [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [motor vehicle driver](/usc/52/20502.md?p=3)’s license application (including any renewal application) submitted to the appropriate [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) motor vehicle authority under [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) law shall serve as an application for voter registration with respect to [elections](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) for [Federal office](/usc/52/20310.md?p=3) unless the applicant fails to sign the voter registration application.
  - (2) An application for voter registration submitted under [paragraph (1)](#a-1) shall be considered as updating any previous voter registration by the applicant.
- (b) **Limitation on use of information—** No information relating to the failure of an applicant for a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [motor vehicle driver](/usc/52/20502.md?p=3)’s license to sign a voter registration application may be used for any purpose other than voter registration.
- (c) **Forms and procedures—**
  - (1) Each [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) shall include a voter registration application form for [elections](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) for [Federal office](/usc/52/20310.md?p=3) as part of an application for a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [motor vehicle driver](/usc/52/20502.md?p=3)’s license.
  - (2) The voter registration application portion of an application for a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [motor vehicle driver](/usc/52/20502.md?p=3)’s license—
    - (A) may not require any information that duplicates information required in the driver’s license portion of the form (other than a second signature or other information necessary under [subparagraph (C)](#c-2-C));
    - (B) may require only the minimum amount of information necessary to—
      - (i) prevent duplicate voter registrations; and
      - (ii) enable [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) officials to assess the eligibility of the applicant and to administer voter registration and other parts of the [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) process;
    - (C) shall include a statement that—
      - (i) [states](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) each eligibility requirement (including citizenship);
      - (ii) contains an attestation that the applicant meets each such requirement; and
      - (iii) requires the signature of the applicant, under penalty of perjury;
    - (D) shall include, in print that is identical to that used in the attestation portion of the application—
      - (i) the information required in [section 20507(a)(5)(A)](/usc/52/20507.md?p=a-5-A) and (B) of this title;
      - (ii) a statement that, if an applicant declines to register to vote, the fact that the applicant has declined to register will remain confidential and will be used only for voter registration purposes; and
      - (iii) a statement that if an applicant does register to vote, the office at which the applicant submits a voter registration application will remain confidential and will be used only for voter registration purposes; and
    - (E) shall be made available (as submitted by the applicant, or in machine readable or other format) to the appropriate [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) official as provided by [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) law.
- (d) **Change of address—** Any change of address form submitted in accordance with [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) law for purposes of a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [motor vehicle driver](/usc/52/20502.md?p=3)’s license shall serve as notification of change of address for voter registration with respect to [elections](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) for [Federal office](/usc/52/20310.md?p=3) for the registrant involved unless the registrant [states](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) on the form that the change of address is not for voter registration purposes.
- (e) **Transmittal deadline—**
  - (1) Subject to [paragraph (2)](#e-2), a completed voter registration portion of an application for a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [motor vehicle driver](/usc/52/20502.md?p=3)’s license accepted at a [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) motor vehicle authority shall be transmitted to the appropriate [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) official not later than 10 days after the date of acceptance.
  - (2) If a registration application is accepted within 5 days before the last day for registration to vote in an [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1), the application shall be transmitted to the appropriate [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) [election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) official not later than 5 days after the date of acceptance.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–31, § 5, May 20, 1993, 107 Stat. 78.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1973gg–3 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.