Vote in
Connecticut
Pick a different stateRegister by October 16
The deadline has passed. Same Day Registration is available during all Early Voting hours (October 19 to November 1) and on Election Day, November 3. Visit the designated Same Day Registration location in your town to register and vote.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered. If you are not, do it now.
Go to Connecticut registration →Vote early October 19 to November 1
Early voting has ended.
Monday, October 19 through Sunday, November 1, 2026, every day, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with hours extended to 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27 and Thursday, October 29. Locations are set by each town.
Pick your day
Early voting is the real date. Same ballot, shorter line, and if something is wrong with your registration you still have days to fix it.
Facts · Read Oct 26Election Day, November 3. Last resort.
Where to vote
Find your polling placeThe state's Voter Registration Lookup and Election Polling Place Locator.Read October 26, 2026 from Connecticut Secretary of the State.
Registered at home but living somewhere else?What Connecticut says to do when the address you are registered at is not the address you live at.
We have not confirmed Connecticut’s rule for this from an official source yet, so we are not printing one. Check which address you are registered at, then ask that county election office what to do.
All the datesRegistering online, by mail and in person, checking your registration, your polling place, and when polls close in Connecticut.
Register by
Friday, October 16, 2026. In person at your Registrar of Voters from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., by mail postmarked no later than October 16, online by 11:59 p.m., or through the DMV or another voter registration agency by their close of business. After that you can still register in person with Same Day Registration during early voting or on Election Day.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register online
Online voter registration must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Friday, October 16, 2026.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register by mail
Postmarked, not received: the state says a mailed voter registration application must be postmarked no later than October 16, 2026.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register in person
In person at your town's designated Same Day Registration location during early voting (October 19 to November 1) or on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Registering in person at your Registrar of Voters, or through the DMV or another voter registration agency, closes on October 16.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register and vote the same day
If you miss the October 16 deadline you can still register and vote through Same Day Registration, at the designated location in your town.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered
The state calls this the Voter Registration Lookup and Election Polling Place Locator.
Facts · Read Oct 26Early, in person
Monday, October 19 through Sunday, November 1, 2026, every day, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., with hours extended to 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27 and Thursday, October 29. Locations are set by each town.
Facts · Read Oct 26Find your polling place
The state's Voter Registration Lookup and Election Polling Place Locator.
Facts · Read Oct 26What to bringThe ID Connecticut accepts, and what to do if you do not have one.
ID your state accepts
- Your social security card
- Any pre-printed form of identification that shows your name and address, or name and signature, or name and photograph
This is what most voters show. Some first-time voters who registered by mail must show a current photo ID with name and address, or a current utility bill, bank statement, government check, paycheck, or government document with name and address, or else cast a provisional ballot.
Facts · Read Oct 26If you do not have one
Carry a second document
Checking. Connecticut lets most voters without ID sign a statement instead, so there may be nothing separate to print here. We are confirming before we say so. Ask your state election office.
Make the plan
Three taps. No account. It stays on this phone.
Roll Call
Lock your date, bring your people, and see how your side is doing.
Who runs your election
The Connecticut Secretary of the State administers elections in Connecticut. Your county or parish election office runs the polling places, counts the ballots, and answers questions about your own ballot. They are the people to call, and the ones whose answer is final.
Statewide offices are the ones every voter in Connecticut votes on, and every ballot counts the same from any precinct in the state. District seats are drawn on a map, so where you live decides which of those you vote on.
Some years a ballot also asks voters to change the rules of voting itself. Those questions tend to cover:
- what counts as ID at the polls or with a mail ballot
- how early voting and mail voting work, and by when
- how districts get drawn and who draws them
- how the election office itself is run and funded
We do not tell you what is on your ballot or what to make of it. Your sample ballot carries the official wording, written by the state. Read it at the Connecticut Secretary of the State.
Mail, honestlyVoting by mail works. It also has rules, and the rules are where ballots get lost.
Your dates are above: when to ask for the ballot, when it has to be back, what happens if a signature is questioned.
- Sign exactly the way you signed when you registered.
- Send it back early, not on the last day.
- Would rather not trust the mail? Check the early in-person window above and go in person.
Ask for your ballot by
Monday, November 2, 2026. No excuse is needed. Request online at the state's absentee ballot portal (open from September 19, 2026) or on paper from your Town Clerk. Ballots are first issued October 2, 2026.
Facts · Read Oct 26It has to be back by
Received, not postmarked, by your Town Clerk by 8:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Return it by mail, in person at the Town Clerk's office, or in your town's secure drop box. The state calendar says a ballot you return in person yourself is due by the day before, November 2.
Facts · Read Oct 26Track your ballot
Checking. We have not found a Connecticut Secretary of the State page that points voters to an absentee ballot tracker, so we are checking. Ask your state election office.
If your signature is questioned
The lineIf the line is long, that is not a reason to leave. It is a reason to stay.
Bring water. Bring a charger. Bring a chair if you can carry one, a book, and a friend. Check your bag rules with your county first. If you are in line when the polls close, stay in line: your state decides what happens next, and every state page here prints its own rule in its own words.
- Water
- A charger
- A chair if you can
- Something to read
- A friend
If you are in line when polls close in Connecticut
Time off to vote
Checking. We have not found the Connecticut Secretary of the State stating a time off to vote rule on a voter page, so we print nothing yet. Ask your state election office.
Your rightsA provisional ballot, help if you need it, and the number to call from the line.
You can vote a provisional ballot
If your name is not on the list, or you do not have what they ask for, ask for a provisional ballot. In a federal election you have the right to cast one. Ask what you must do afterwards for it to count, and write it down.
You can bring someone to help
You can bring a person of your choice to help you vote, with limits your state sets on who it cannot be. Ask the poll worker for the rule in writing.
Language and disability assistance
Polling places must be accessible, and many places must provide help in other languages. Ask for the accessible machine, the curbside option, or the language help you need.
If someone tries to move you off your vote
Questions about your citizenship, a crowd following you in, someone filming you at the door, a person telling you that you cannot vote: none of that decides your vote. Do not leave the line. Call the hotline from where you stand.
Sources: the Connecticut Secretary of the State, and the Election Protection coalition for the hotlines below.
Call from the line
If anyone tells you that you cannot vote, or you are turned away, or something feels wrong: do not leave. Call.
- 866-OUR-VOTE866-687-8683 · English
- 888-VE-Y-VOTA888-839-8682 · Spanish and English
- 888-API-VOTE888-274-8683 · Asian languages and English
- 844-YALLA-US844-925-5287 · Arabic and English
Election Protection, administered by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Numbers confirmed against their own site on September 19, 2026.
Your state election office is the final word. We print what its own pages say, with the date we read them.
Read on October 26, 2026 from your state election office, checked by AI against the Connecticut Secretary of the State pages. Connecticut Secretary of the State is the final word. See something wrong? Report it.