Voter lists in Florida: who can get them, where, what's in them, what they cost

Florida's voter file is public record, and anyone can ask for it. Here are the two places to get it, the 38 fields and ten years of voting history inside, what the state holds back, what each South Florida county charges, and how far ahead to ask.

Published Fri, Oct 23, 2026

A voter list is the one mailing list a campaign doesn't have to buy from a data company. Florida treats it as public record, and the state and every county will hand it over to anyone who asks. This guide covers where to ask, what you get, what it costs and how far ahead to start. If you are new to campaign mail, read Direct Mail 101 first for the three ways to reach homes.

It is public, and nobody asks why

The Division of Elections says it plainly: "Voter registration and voting history information is public record under Florida law" (Florida Division of Elections). The state's request page sets no eligibility test and asks for no statement of purpose. The National Conference of State Legislatures lists Florida's file as "Available to the public" (NCSL).

Counties say the same. Palm Beach's elections office puts it as "With few exceptions, all voter information is public record" (Palm Beach SOE).

Florida also sets no limit on commercial use. The old rule that voter information "shall not be used for commercial purposes" was section 98.0979, and the Legislature repealed it in 2005 (2004 text; ch. 2005-278). NCSL's table answers "What can the file be used for?" with "Not specified."

The one part that is gated is the vote-by-mail request file, which goes only to opposed candidates, parties and committees. Our guide to vote-by-mail data covers it.

Door one: the state's monthly file

The Division of Elections builds a statewide extract every month: one zip of 67 county voter files and one zip of 67 county voting-history files, "created monthly in tab-delimited ASCII text file format" (file layout, May 2026). It reflects voters "as of the end of the prior month."

How to ask. Email [email protected], or write to the Division at the R.A. Gray Building, 500 South Bronough Street, Room 316, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 (phone 850.245.6219). Give your contact details and a mailing address "to receive the disk by mail." The page is firm that "This information IS NOT available by email or online" (request page).

When. The 2026 release dates are January 14, February 11, March 11, April 15, May 13, June 10, July 15, August 12, September 16, October 16, November 12 and December 16. A request has to arrive "no later than 24 hours before the scheduled date." Miss that and it becomes an ordinary public-records request to [email protected]. One standing request a year covers every monthly disk until December 31.

What it costs. The state's page lists no fee for the scheduled monthly file. It says only that late requests are "subject to administrative fees for processing." Ask when you request.

The state file is the whole state in one delivery, which is more than a local race needs. Most local campaigns go to the county.

Door two: your county's elections office

Each Supervisor of Elections sells the same public data, cut to your county and often to the voters you ask for.

Broward: "Each search has a $20.00 flat-rate fee," and "$6.00" more puts the file on a USB drive. Files over 10MB come by Dropbox. Ask through the online portal, at [email protected], on (954) 712-1969, or in person at 4650 NW 21st Avenue, Fort Lauderdale. Pay by check, card or PayPal invoice.
Palm Beach: "A $20.00 processing fee" for reports the office generates, and "A USB drive is $6.00." There is no charge unless the work takes more than 15 minutes, and "Payment must be made prior to fulfillment." Ask by the online form, on (561) 656-6200, or at P.O. Box 22309, West Palm Beach, FL 33416.
Miami-Dade: data products "for a flat fee of $20." "Orders may be extracted by Party, Race, Gender, or Age," and they are processed in 3 to 5 business days, prepaid. Ask at [email protected] or 305-499-8440.

Sources: Broward SOE price list, Palm Beach SOE public records, Miami-Dade data requests.

Broward and Palm Beach don't publish a turnaround time or a file format, so ask both questions when you order.

What's in the file

The state's voter file has 38 fields per voter (file layout):

Who: Voter ID, last, first and middle name, suffix, gender, race, birth date, registration date, party, and whether the voter is active.
Where they live: residence address, city and ZIP.
Where their mail goes: a separate mailing address, which can differ from the residence.
Where they vote: precinct, precinct group, split and suffix, plus congressional, state house, state senate, county commission and school board districts.
How to reach them: daytime phone and email, when the voter gave them.

Phone numbers and email addresses are public in Florida. The Division lists "phone number, and email address" among the public items (DOS).

The second file is voting history: one row per voter per election, for "the prior 10 years" of federal and state elections. Each row says how the person voted: by mail, early, at the polls, or a ballot that wasn't counted. That history is how a campaign finds likely voters, people who voted in most recent elections.

One thing the file lacks is a city-limits field. To cut a city race, cut by precinct and district, which the file does carry. Our guide to mailing by precinct shows how, and city limits vs. ZIP codes explains why the postal city on an address can mislead you.

What the state holds back

Some things never leave the elections office:

Social Security, driver license and Florida ID numbers (s. 97.0585(1)(c)).
Where a person registered, meaning the source of the application.
Everything about 16- and 17-year-olds who preregistered.
Signatures, which "can be viewed, but not copied."

The extract also leaves out people in the Address Confidentiality Program. Voters who asked for a public-records exemption stay in the file with their name, addresses, birth date, precinct, districts, phone and email left blank. Those rows can't be mailed, so expect your count to drop a little.

How far ahead to ask

Work back from the day your mailer has to land.

Pick your source. For one county, ask the county. For several counties or a statewide race, the state file may be simpler.
Allow for the request. Miami-Dade says 3 to 5 business days. Broward and Palm Beach don't publish a time, so call before you count on one. The state file comes on a monthly schedule and by mail, so a request made the day after a release waits about a month.
Allow for cleanup. With us, cleaning, addressing and presorting the list takes 1 to 3 business days.
Allow for print and the mail. Then about 7 to 10 business days to print, address and deliver. USPS doesn't guarantee a delivery day, so treat this as a window.

Re-pull after registration closes. For the November 3, 2026 general election, registration closed on October 5, 2026 (DOS election dates), and the state's October 16 file "Includes voters registered as of the 2026 General Election book closing on October 5th" (DOS). A list pulled in the summer misses everyone who registered after it, so ask again once the books close. The Florida campaign mail calendar has the rest of the dates.

A worked example with our prices

Say you are running in a Broward district and want one postcard in every home with a registered voter in your party. You order the county list for $20, and after cleanup it comes to 5,000 households.

Line	Amount
Broward voter list (the county's fee)	$20
Print, list cleanup, addressing and presort, 5,000 of our 6" × 9" postcards	$1,650
Postage at 29¢ to 40¢ a piece	$1,450 to $2,000
Total	$3,120 to $3,670

Postage is billed at the actual USPS rate after presort, usually 29¢–40¢ per piece, and only on the pieces that mail (our list-mail pricing). The 5,000 households are made up for the arithmetic. Your count depends on your district and how many voters share a home.

Before that list mails, it needs the same cleaning as any other: addresses checked, movers updated, one piece per household. Our guide to list hygiene explains each step.

When a voter list beats every door

A voter list reaches only registered voters, and only the ones you pick. Every Door Direct Mail reaches every home on a postal route, voters or not, for lower postage. Which one costs less per voter depends on how many of the homes on your routes hold the voters you want. Our worked example in Davie runs both for one town.

Or let us do it

You can request the file and mail it yourself with everything above. If you would rather hand it off, tell us your race and which voters you want. We may already have the list for your city; if not, we request the official list from your county elections office, clean it, and print and mail your postcards. See voter list mail or contact us with your race and your dates.

Mail the voters you choose. Tell us your race and which voters you want. We may already have the list for your city; if not, we request it from your county, then clean, address and mail it. See voter list mail →

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