How To Opt Out of VoterRecords.com (And What Happened When I Tried)

A 19-year-old who registered to vote in high school searched her own name on Google. The second result was her old address and an aerial photo of her house on VoterRecords.com. Because she has an unusual name, it was the only result.

Writing on r/privacy, user SignConscious8506 said she didn't mind her name, age, or political party being public. Her address was different, and the exposure had made her afraid to vote.

VoterRecords.com has a free opt-out form that takes about two minutes, but the opt-out only covers your house number. Your street, political affiliation, race, and more are still readily available for anyone to find. 

When I ran it on my own listing in September 2026 to test VoterRecords.com opt-out, it didn't even remove my house number. 

Here's what the process covers, what happened when I tested it, and the one route that actually clears a record.

Is your state on VoterRecords.com?

You can search for your VoterRecords.com record by your name or state. The VoterRecords.com homepage lists 17 jurisdictions: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, and Washington.

The good news is that if your state isn't one of them, there's nothing here to opt out of. The bad news is that it's easier for other people to find you.

When I searched using only my first and last name, the site returned two listings.

What VoterRecords.com shows about you

VoterRecords.com is a public data broker that republishes government voter files. That means you don't have to sign up or create an account for your information to appear publicly. 

The first thing on my record was a cartoon donkey. The site renders your party affiliation as a graphic at the top of the page, above a sentence that reads like a dossier summary: my name, my address, my party, and that I'm a white female registered to vote in my county.

The site also gets super granular. Besides my sex, race, residential address, mailing address, registration date, voter status, and status reason, it also details the corresponding precinct and my congressional, state house, state senate, county, and school board districts. My phone number sat behind a paywalled "View phone number."

Then it shows your neighbors

This is the part I wasn't ready for. My record has a satellite map for my residential address and a second one for my mailing address, and underneath, a table of ten neighbors listed by name, political party, and street address. Unaffiliated, Libertarian, Democratic, Republican. Each name links to that person's own record, and a link at the bottom offers to show everyone on the street.

I didn't look anyone up. The site volunteered them.

A Related Records block pushes to view four of my neighbors, with their gender, race, and party on display. The FAQ says related records "does not mean that you are associated in any way with those people." Which raises the question of why they're on my page in the first place. 

Then the upsell. A Run Background Search button, sponsored by TruthFinder, offering court records, address history, offenses, job history, criminal and traffic records, and social profiles. A site that describes itself as a free research tool for studying voter data has a paid people search funnel bolted to every record.

Is VoterRecords.com legit?

Yes, VoterRecords.com is a real company publishing real records, and the opt-out form is real too. The footer says everything on the site comes from official government records released under FOIA and public record laws. That checks out.

It is not a background check service in the legal sense. The site states it isn't a consumer reporting agency under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, so it can't be used for employment, housing, credit, or insurance decisions.

Its About page calls it a "free political research tool for the study of public voter data," built for researchers, political organizations, and candidates. Hold that phrasing next to the map of my house.

The Do Not Sell page is not a removal tool

The "Do Not Sell" link that gets passed around in privacy threads as the opt-out answer won't help protect your privacy.

VoterRecords.com has a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information page. It's the obvious place to go, and it does nothing to your listing.

The page says so explicitly: the opt-out does not remove or change the public records data displayed on the website. Scroll to the section on what the opt-out covers, and the very first item under what it doesn't is "Public Records Data displayed on the Site."

This aims to stop targeted advertising and the kind of disclosure state law treats as a sale, but your record is still untouchable.

There's also no submit button. Just a toggle that applies to the browser you're using, on the device you're using. The page does say it honors Global Privacy Control signals where required by law, so send one. Just don't count it as a removal.

How to opt out of VoterRecords.com

Know the ceiling before you start. The form itself tells you what it removes: "house number." That's the whole offer.

1. Search your name. Go to VoterRecords.com and search by your name or state. A Cloudflare check comes first, so expect to prove you're human before you can look yourself up.

2. Make sure the record is yours. The results page said "Kate Quinlan has 2 Voter Records," though the second belongs to a different woman with my first, middle, and last name. 

3. Open the individual record page. Click the name. This step is the one people miss, and the site's own FAQ says so: the opt-out link exists only on the detailed record page, never on search results.

4. Scroll all the way down. The Record Opt-Out link is in the page footer, below the maps, neighbors, demographics charts, and background report pitch. You have to pass all of it to reach the form link.

5. Fill out the form. Full name, email address, and email confirmation. Check the box confirming you're the person in the record or have legal authority to act for them, clear the hCaptcha, and click Submit Opt-Out.

6. Wait for the verification email. You'll land on a "Step 2 of 3" page telling you the email went out. It asks for up to 20 minutes and points you to your spam folder.

7. Click the link. Then refresh and clear your browser cache before you check, as the FAQ recommends.

What happened when I tested it

I submitted the opt-out in September 2026 from a personal email address. (Corporate spam filters can block work addresses.)

The status page told me two of three steps were done. All that was left was for me to click the verification link once I received the email. I checked my spam folder and waited past the recommended 20 minutes. The FAQ says: "Not everyone will receive the verification email. If you do not receive the email, this typically means your record was successfully processed without additional verification being needed." Unfortunately, I wasn't so lucky, so I submitted a second request as the guidance says. 

But my house number is still on my record. Even if it weren't, the record still includes a satellite map and a directory of all my neighbors and their house addresses, so omitting my house number wouldn't offer much privacy.

The only route to full removal is a public-records exemption

The twist is that, when asked whether you can remove your entire record and name, VoterRecords.com says it "generally does not allow complete removal of records except for individuals who have an official exemption from public records."

And for those who do: "Please send us a message with proof of public record exemption, and we will expeditiously remove the information from our site."

Without an exemption, you might be able to have your house number removed, at best. With one, they pull your record. The opt-out form everyone's been passing around isn't the answer: the exemption is.

An exemption means your state has agreed to keep your voter address confidential. Per the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, most states run these programs, usually called Address Confidentiality Programs, for people who are victims of crimes such as domestic abuse. Some states have extended them to law enforcement officers, certain medical professionals, judges, and other government officials.

Who qualifies in each covered state

Eligibility varies more than you'd expect, and in three of the 17 covered jurisdictions you don't have to be a crime victim at all. Here's where each stands, per the National Conference of State Legislatures, updated June 10, 2026.

State	Who can make their voter address confidential
Alaska	Any voter, in writing, if they provide a separate mailing address
Nevada	Any registered voter may request their address and phone number be withheld
District of Columbia	ACP participants, anyone with a court order, and individuals of significant public stature where disclosure would be an unwarranted invasion of privacy
Oklahoma	ACP participants, the judiciary, district attorneys, Uniformed Services members, law enforcement, correctional officers, people protected by victim's protection orders, and their spouses and dependents
New Jersey	ACP participants, plus active, formerly active, or retired judicial officers, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers
Florida	ACP participants, pre-registrants, and categories of high-risk professionals
Louisiana	ACP participants, pre-registrants, and law enforcement officers in hazardous assignments
Washington	ACP participants, including election officials targeted by threats or harassment, and pre-registered voters under 18
Colorado	ACP participants and pre-registrants
Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island	ACP participants only

If you're in Alaska or Nevada, stop reading the opt-out instructions. Ask your state elections office to withhold your residential address, then send VoterRecords.com the proof. That's the shortest path for anyone on this list.

North Carolina, where I live, is ACP participants only. So is most of the covered map. Those programs exist for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking, and if you don't fit, your state has decided your address is public record, and that's the end of it.

Either way, start with your state elections office. The EAC keeps contact information for all of them.

Why removing it here doesn't remove it anywhere

Even still, a removal that works only works here, and VoterRecords.com says as much in its privacy policy.

The policy states that public records data "is not treated as personal information collected from users," that requests to correct, remove, or update it "must be directed to the originating government agency," and that state privacy rights, deletion included, "do not apply to Public Records Data displayed on the Site."

So the company holding your address has written down that your privacy rights don't reach it, and that if you want it changed you should go ask the government.

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Bottom line

First, check the list of 17 states with voter information made publicly available on VoterRecords.com. If your state isn't there, you're done.

If it is, submit the Record Opt-Out. It's free, it's quick, and it might take your house number off. Don't expect more, and don't read a missing verification email as success. Mine never arrived, twice, and nothing changed.

The exemption is the real answer. In Alaska and Nevada, any voter can ask for one. Everywhere else on that list you'd need to qualify through an Address Confidentiality Program, and most people won't.

As for the 19-year-old who wanted to know whether registering to vote costs you your home address: in most states, right now, it does. An opt-out here won't touch your registration or your right to vote. It takes a number off one website and leaves the map. 

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