Official applications to register to vote are postage-paid by the State of Texas. You may obtain an application from the County Voter Registrar's office, the Secretary of State's Office, libraries, many post offices, or high schools.
From our website, you may request that we send you an official, postage-paid application. Or, you may download an informal application, but you will be required to affix a stamp before mailing. You may also register to vote when you apply for or renew your driver's license. Read the instructions on the form, fill it out and mail it postage-free to the County Voter Registrar, or hand-deliver it to the County Voter Registrar's office.
You must be at least 17 years and 10 months of age on the date you apply. If for any reason you cannot register yourself, with your permission, your spouse, parent or child may fill out and sign an application for you if that person is a registered voter or has applied for voter registration.
This person is known as your "agent. The application must be received in the County Voter Registrar's office or postmarked 30 days before an election in order for you to be eligible to vote in that election. You will receive a voter registration certificate in the mail after the County Voter Registrar has processed your voter registration application. Upon receipt of the voter registration certificate, sign it, fold it and keep in it in your wallet and take it to the polls with you when you vote.
All voters who registered to vote in Texas must provide a Texas driver's license number or personal identification number issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety or the last four digits of your social security number. If you have not been issued any of these numbers, then you must state that fact on the application by checking the designated box.
The voter must present one of the seven 7 acceptable forms of identification:. If you move within the same county simply go to the Secretary of State's web site and change your address online or promptly notify the County Voter Registrar, in writing, of your new address by:.
You will receive a new certificate with your new address. You will be able to vote in your new precinct 30 days after your change of address is submitted. Choosing the "annual" option ensures these applicants will receive a mail ballot for all elections held during a calendar year.
Annual applications may be submitted starting the first day of a calendar year January 1 and not later than the 11th day before Election Day. Applicants who do not qualify to submit an "Annual" ballot-by-mail application may submit an application for a single election starting the first day of the calendar year January 1 and not later than the 11th day before Election Day.
If the 11th day is a weekend or holiday, the deadline is the first preceding business day. Box Houston, TX This type of application is limited to:. The FPCA must be resubmitted every time a voter changes mailing address. To participate in an election taking place within a calendar year, an FPCA may be mailed starting on January 1 of that year. In Texas, voters who are 65 years of age or older or are disabled may submit an annual ballot by mail application to the early voting clerk starting on the first day of a calendar year.
Temporarily disabled voters may submit a ballot by mail application for a specific election at any time in the year of the election for which a ballot is requested, but not later than the close of regular business in the early voting clerk's office or 12 noon, whichever is later, on the 11th day before election day unless that day is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal state or national holiday, in which case the last day is the first preceding regular business day.
Eligible applicants will receive a ballot in the mail and must return it to the early voting clerk. The voted ballot must be delivered to the Election Administrator's Office via mail, or common or contract courier by p. The election officer will deliver a ballot to the voter at the polling place entrance or curb. A special curbside buzzer will be placed near the entrance of the poll so a curbside voter may ring the buzzer from their car. A sign will identify the curbside voting. If you have any questions regarding Curbside Voting, you may contact the Elections office at Voting curbside will not shorten the time at the polls as curbside voters are voted as their place in line arrives to the qualification table.
The voting equipment affords voters with disabilities the capability to vote independently and privately at the polling location during the Early Voting Period or on Election Day. The voting equipment is pre-equipped with two large buttons, called jelly switches, as an accessibility aid to voters whose tactile skills do not lend easily to operating embedded buttons.
The jack into which these tactile inputs are plugged is a standard 3. Also available to the voter are a pair of standard headphones, or the option to plug in their own headphones, through which all operations will be narrated. This allows a voter with vision impairments to navigate the voting equipment without assistance from a third party.
You may submit an application for a late ballot because of sickness or disability after the last day of early voting and before pm on election day.
In order to qualify the sickness or disability must originate on or after the 12th day before election day. You may submit an application to vote due to a death in the immediate family that occurred on or after the 5th day before election day and will be absent from the county on election day.
Voters are required to submit an application for these specific instances. Please contact the Elections Division at for questions.
Pursuant to Section A person assisting an individual with a mobility problem may also, at the individual's request, be given voting order priority. Disabilities and conditions that may qualify you for voting order priority include paralysis, lung disease, the use of portable oxygen, cardiac deficiency, severe limitation in the ability to walk due to arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic condition, wheelchair confinement, arthritis, foot disorder, the inability to walk feet without stopping to rest, or use of a brace, cane, crutch, or other assistive device.
Where can I vote during the early voting period? Note: Polling place hours vary at each early voting location.
Where do I go? What are the hours for voting on election day? Where can I find my precinct number on my voter registration certificate? Please see our FAQ page for more information. Not Registered?
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