Citizenship: Update Your Ohio Voter Address Online!

If you're anything like me, you've slowly gotten used to the idea that you can do almost anything online.  Post office lets you forward or hold your mail online.  You can renew your car's registration online.  File taxes.  Pay bills.  Change addresses, update phone numbers, and other contact info for almost everything.

Also, if you're anything like me, you've moved in the last 4 years and realized, "Dammit, I need to go to the library/school/post office/whatever, get a form, and mail in my change of address so I can vote."  And you've gotten grumpy, because the Secretary of State office is so far behind the times.

Well be grumpy no more.  Now you can update the address on your voting record with a simple online form!

Here's what you do:

• Go to the Secretary of State's webpage, and select the "Elections and Voting."
• Direct link
• There's a lot of cool stuff on this page about elections, so I'd bookmark it.  For our purposes, find "Voters" in the top left corner of the collage and click it.
• Again, a LOT of good stuff here.  You can find the ID requirements, an FAQ, early and absentee voting info...browse it all at your leisure.
• For now, click "Change MY Address Online"
• A new tab/page will open
• You've got 2 options
• Update online (in Green)
• Update manually (in Red)
• Do you see what they did there?
• Once you click "Click Here to Continue" you'll be prompted to enter some information, so they can make an accurate match to your voting record
• Driver's license number
• Your last name, as it appeared when you registered to vote/changed your registration
• Date of birth
• Last 4 of your Social Security number
• From there, you'll see what they have listed as your current address, and the fields to fill in to change it
• Editor's note: Phone number and e-mail address are optional, and I left mine blank. I get enough harassment from candidates and activists as it is.
• The next page will show you the finished product
• make sure it looks right and either 
• go back and fix it or 
• confirm it
• Once you submit the change, you'll have the usual page dedicated to you affirming your eligibility to vote
• You'll see a message at the end telling you the change has been forwarded to the proper authorities for processing.  My guess is once it's official, you'll receive one of those little post cards
• When/if I get mine I'll update this portion ;-)

This is just for Ohio, mind you.  I know there are states out there without any online system in place, so make absolutely sure it's a real application you're using before punching in a bunch of personal info--scammers love to cash in on our need for convenience.

*** UPDATE 9/17/12 ***

Yes, the Board of Election sent in a confirmation card like usual.  Tho ironically, this doesn't qualify as proof you live at that address...