Voter registration information: confidentiality

The law shields more voter data, including past registration information and voting history, from public-facing voter lists. It also sets procedures for maintaining confidentiality while voting and when voters move or run for office.

What the law does ​

• Extends confidential status from a voter’s address, phone number, and email to the voter’s entire registration record, including prior records and participation history.
• Covers voters facing life-threatening circumstances, participants in specified address-confidentiality programs, qualifying public safety officers, and qualifying election workers.
• Lets elected officials and ballot-qualified candidates request confidential status, and lets elected officials include a co-residing spouse, domestic partner, parent, or child who agrees in writing.
• Requires confidential voters to be excluded from voter lists, rosters, and indexes, subject to limited disclosure rules for officials’ and candidates’ contact information for bona fide journalistic or governmental purposes.
• Requires the Secretary of State to notify counties when state and federal candidates qualify for the ballot and requires counties to process and report confidential-status changes for applicable officials and candidates.
• Requires the Secretary of State to establish by September 30, 2027, a process allowing confidential voters to vote at a polling place or vote center without losing confidentiality.

Who it affects ​

• Voters with court-recognized life-threatening circumstances or participating in specified address-confidentiality programs.
• Public safety officers and election office workers facing life-threatening circumstances.
• Federal, state, and local elected officials, ballot-qualified candidates, and certain household family members of elected officials.
• County elections officials and the Secretary of State.