Voter List Maintenance & Registration Cancellation

This process allows individuals to voluntarily remove themselves from the voter rolls if they no longer wish to be a registered voter.

Voluntary voter registration cancellation is a straightforward process available to registered voters in Maricopa County. If you are currently registered to vote and would like to cancel your voter registration, please use the Cancelation Request Form provided by the Maricopa County Recorder's Office.

To initiate the cancellation process, you may print the form using the link below or request one from our office. Once filled out, you have multiple options for submitting the form:

In person:
Maricopa County Recorder’s Office
111 S. 3rd Ave, Ste 102
Phoenix, AZ 85003

By mail:
Maricopa County Recorder’s Office
Attn: Voter Registration
111 S. 3rd Ave, Ste 102
Phoenix, AZ 85003

By email: [email protected]

By fax: (602) 506-3069
 
Voter Registration Cancellation in Maricopa County is conducted through a physical form that requires an original handwritten signature, ensuring the integrity of the process and verifying the voter's intent to cancel their registration. Once your record is canceled, you will be sent a cancelation notice to confirm the cancelation of your voting record.

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CANCELLATION FORM

The Maricopa County Recorder's Office follows the established laws for canceling the voter registration of deceased individuals to maintain accurate voter rolls. Although our office receives monthly reports of deceased individuals from the Arizona Department of Health Services, family members can also play a crucial role in this process by notifying the Recorder's Office about the death of a registered voter. Upon receiving such notification, the office will ask the family member to either provide a copy of the death certificate and/or sign an affidavit requesting cancelation of the deceased voter’s record.

Family members who want to initiate the cancellation process can print the cancelation request form using the link below and/or provide a copy of the deceased voter’s death certificate to the Recorder's Office. You have multiple options for submitting these documents:

In person:
Maricopa County Recorder’s Office
111 S. 3rd Ave, Ste 102
Phoenix, AZ 85003

By mail:
Maricopa County Recorder’s Office
Attn: Voter Registration
111 S. 3rd Ave, Ste 102
Phoenix, AZ 85003

By email: [email protected]

By fax: (602) 506-3069
 
Deceased Voter Registration Cancellation requests require a physical form with an original handwritten signature from a family member, ensuring the integrity of the process and verifying the authenticity of the request to remove the deceased individual from the voter rolls.

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REGISTRATION CANCELLATION FORM

Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act protects the integrity of the electoral process by ensuring the maintenance of an accurate and current voter registration roll for federal elections.

In addition to the federal provisions established in the National Voter Registration Act, the Help America Vote Act requires local election systems to include provisions to ensure that voter registration records are accurate and are updated regularly. These systems also include safeguards to ensure that eligible voters are not removed in error from the official list of eligible voters.

Arizona law requires counties to maintain accurate and up-to-date voter registration lists to ensure election integrity. 

The Recorder’s Office is required by state law (ARS 16-165) to cancel registrations for the following reasons:

1. At the request of the person registered.
2. When the county recorder is informed and confirms that the person registered is dead.
3. If the person has been adjudicated an incapacitated person as defined by law.
4. When the person registered has been convicted of a felony, and the judgment of conviction has not been reversed or set aside. 
5. On production of a certified copy of a judgment directing a cancellation to be made.
6. Promptly after the election if the person registered has applied for a ballot pursuant to section 16-126 of the Arizona Revised Statutes.
7. When a person has been on the inactive voter list and has not voted during the time periods prescribed by state law.
8. When the county recorder receives written information from the person registered that the person has a change of residence within the county and the person does not complete and return a new registration form within twenty-nine days after the county recorder mails notification of the need to complete and return a new registration form with current information.
9. When the county recorder receives written information from the person registered that the person has a change of address outside the county.
10. When the county recorder obtains information pursuant to this section and confirms that the person registered is not a United States citizen, including when the county recorder receives a summary report from the jury commissioner or jury manager.
11. When the county recorder receives confirmation from another county recorder that the person registered has registered to vote in that other county.

If a voter does not respond to address confirmation notices, they are placed on an inactive list. If an inactive voter does not vote through two general elections after the notice is sent, their registration may be cancelled.
 
For any official elections mail that is returned undeliverable by the USPS, the Recorder's Office sends a follow-up-notice requesting the voter to confirm their address or update their registration if they moved within 35 days. If the voter does not respond within 35 days, their voter record will be moved to inactive status. If an inactive voter does not vote through the second general election after the notice is sent, the voter’s registration will be cancelled (ARS 16-165; 16-166).
 
If a registered voter confirms their address, they will be moved to active status. If the voter moved within the county and re-registers with their new address, the voter will be moved back to active status and a new voter registration card will be mailed as official notice. 

The Arizona courts provide records of residents who have been convicted of felonies, have been adjudicated incapacitated, or have self-reported as a felon on a jury duty questionnaire to our office. These lists will be cross referenced with the voter rolls to ensure that individuals who are no longer eligible to vote due to felony convictions or mental incapacitation are removed from the voter rolls.

The Maricopa County Jury Commissioner’s Office informs the Recorder's Office when jury summons questionnaires reveal that an individual self-reported as not being a U.S. citizen or is no longer a resident of our county.

The Recorder's Office is required to send individual notifications requesting that voters provide documentary proof of citizenship. Failure to return this form and documentary proof of citizenship within 35 days results in voter registration cancellation.

When a voter no longer lives at the address on file, the Maricopa County Recorder's Office implements a process to verify and update voter registration information. 

Initial Notice
When official election mail sent to a registered voter is returned as undeliverable from the USPS, the Maricopa County Recorder's Office sends a final forwardable notice to the voter's address on file or to the forwarding address provided by USPS to confirm their current residential address.

Final Notice
If there is no response to the final notice, the vote’s record will be moved in inactive status. If the voter was on the active early voting list, they will be removed from the list. 

Cancellation Process
If the voter remains inactive and does not vote in subsequent elections (usually over a period of two federal election cycles), their registration may be canceled. 

If the registered voter no longer resides at the address on file, and someone else receives the election materials, they can return them to the Recorder's Office, indicating that the voter no longer lives there.

This will automatically generate a second final notice mailer, which will be sent to the same address. If there is no response to the final notice, the voter’s record will be moved to inactive status and may be canceled pursuant to ARS 16-165(A)(7).

Using a database provided by the Arizona Department of Transportation and the Secretary of State, the Recorder’s Office sends a notice by forwardable mail to each person who has obtained a driver license or the equivalent of an nonoperating identification license in another state, requesting the person confirm by signing under penalty of perjury that the person is a resident of this state and is not knowingly registered to vote in another state or confirm that the person is not a resident of this state. If the voter does not respond within 90 days, the voter’s record will be moved to inactive status and may be canceled pursuant to ARS 16-165(A)(7).