Residents not registered to vote have until 4:30 p.m. Monday to change that in time for the Nov. 4 election.

The Registrar of Voters offices in Iberia, St. Martin and St. Mary parishes are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. Residents have a multitude of options to register to vote, including at the offices themselves.

Other avenues include registering online at www.GeauxVote.com, picking up forms at public locations like city halls or libraries or paying a visit to an Office of Motor Vehicles location.

Photographic identification is required for registration. Those registering online specifically need a driver’s license, but those without can download a form from the website to manually fill out as well.

According to the registrar’s office, 47,749 residents are registered to vote, out of 53,398 residents age 18 and older according to the 2010 U.S. Census, or around 89 percent of eligible residents.

The U.S. Census has recored 38,389 people in St. Martin Parish who are age 18 and older. Of those, 35,965 are registered to vote, or as Registrar Pat Guidry said it, “35 shy of 36,000.”

“We’re trying to get over that little hump,” Guidry said, referencing the goal.

Those figures give St. Martin Parish around 94 percent registration rate among eligible residents.

Those in St. Mary Parish will have to travel to Franklin at the main registrar office to register, as illness has forced the temporary closure of the Morgan City branch because of the staffing issue.

“We may open it up later this week,” Registrar Jolene Holcombe said. 

“We’ll just have to see how everything goes.”

Holcombe said St. Mary Parish had 33,388 residents registered to vote as of Monday out of 40,746 residents 18 and older, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. This makes a roughly 82-percent voter registration rate.