Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 37 No. 36, September 9, 2011 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

Based upon written public comments received, in addition to making the effective date of this rule January 1, 2012, which was omitted in the Notice of Proposed Rule, the following changes have been made to the version of the incorporated form, DS-DE 39 compared to the version made available under the Notice of Proposed Rule:

1. The requirements for registration are placed into bullet form.

2. The order of the paragraphs under the instructions for political party affiliation is changed to explain first that Florida is a closed primary election state.

3. The check boxes for whether the application is being used to do an address change, name change, party change or signature update are collapsed to a check box category of “Record Update/Change” which is consistent with paragraph (q) of subsection 97.052(2), Florida Statutes.

4. Field A, relating to the citizenship checkbox. is changed to conform with statutory language under paragraph (r) of subsection 97.052(2), Florida Statutes.

5. Field E. relating to the requisite personal identifying number. is changed to emphasize statutory preference to receive the Florida driver’s license number or Florida identification number if issued which is more consistent with the wording in paragraphs (m)-(n) of subsection 97.052(2), Florida Statutes.

6. The field containing race/ethnicity is changed to switch the order of “Multi-racial” and “Other” so that “Other” is listed last.

7. The field eliciting UOCAVA status as relates to a spouse or dependent family member of active duty uniformed services or merchant marine is changed to simply ‘family member’ of such individual.

8. The field relating to whether help will be needed at the polls is changed from “Check if you will need help with voting” to “I will need assistance with voting”.

9. The field relating to soliciting volunteers to become poll workers is changed from “Are you interested in becoming a poll worker?” to “I am interested in becoming a poll worker.”

10. The back of the form now includes the current address list information for all 67 county supervisors of elections.