• FSM Election Offices
• FSM Embassies
• FSM Consulate Offices
• Requests faxed to 691-320-7534 will be faxed back.
Not everyone needs to go in person to get an application.
Anyone, preferably FSM voters, can hand carry Voter ID applications to his/her relatives or people he/she knows to be FSM voters.
However, an appl tion for a FSM voter ID card must be submitted by the applicant in person at either a national election office or a mobile registration location, like an FSM consulate office.
There is no fee for getting your first voter ID card.
If a voter has lost his/her coter ID card, he/she must report immediately to the FSM Election Office and inform them of this incident.
Then he/she will be required to pay $2.50 to the FSM Treasury for a replacement coter ID card.
The benefits of having a voter ID card are many.
First, it is a reliable and effective form of FSM identification.
A voter ID card includes several identifying features such as photo, full name, date of birth, gender, signature and other identifying information that provide greater assurance that the voter is who he/she claims to be. It can also be used to establish legal residency as a requirement for other agencies.
Second, it serves as acknowledgement that a voter is duly registered regardless if unlisted on a voter registration list due to error.
It can be marked when the voter has obtained a ballot, preventing multiple voting, and facilitates voting in areas where a voter may not be known personally.
The voter ID card permits a voter to cast a ballot at any “voting-at-another-polling-place” designated for his or her congressional election district without having to submit absentee voting request forms, and it also permits a voter to cast a ballot at any “special-polling-place” designated outside FSM for his or her congressional election district without submitting a written absentee request.
If you are an FSM citizen holding an FSM passport, yet are not a FSM registered voter, the FSM Election Office will not process your request for an FSM voter ID card, unless you are a registered voter.
