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Delaware
Pick a different stateRegister by October 10
The deadline has passed. Ask Delaware what you can still do.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered. If you are not, do it now.
Go to Delaware registration →Vote early October 22 to November 1
Open now
Today is the last day.
Thursday, October 22 through Sunday, November 1, 2026, with no early voting on Sunday, October 25. Hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. from October 22 to 24 and October 26 to 27, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. from October 28 to November 1. You may vote at any early voting site in your county of residence.
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 says to use the Voter Portal to find your assigned polling place. On Election Day you must vote at your assigned polling place.Read October 26, 2026 from Delaware Department of Elections.
Registered at home but living somewhere else?What Delaware says to do when the address you are registered at is not the address you live at.
We have not confirmed Delaware’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 Delaware.
Register by
Saturday, October 10, 2026, at 11:59 p.m., for every way of registering. Military and overseas voters have until Monday, October 19, 2026.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register online
Register online at the iVote voter portal by 11:59 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, 2026.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register by mail
The state says a mailed application postmarked by the deadline counts as received by the deadline.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register in person
Department of Elections offices statewide are open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, 2026, to register voters.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered
The state says to check whether you are registered by entering your information at ivote.de.gov, the State of Delaware Voter Portal.
Facts · Read Oct 26Early, in person
Thursday, October 22 through Sunday, November 1, 2026, with no early voting on Sunday, October 25. Hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. from October 22 to 24 and October 26 to 27, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. from October 28 to November 1. You may vote at any early voting site in your county of residence.
Facts · Read Oct 26Find your polling place
The state says to use the Voter Portal to find your assigned polling place. On Election Day you must vote at your assigned polling place.
Facts · Read Oct 26Polls close
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, November 3, 2026.
Facts · Read Oct 26What to bringThe ID Delaware accepts, and what to do if you do not have one.
ID your state accepts
- Poll workers ask voters to show proof of identity. Delaware does not require a photo ID to vote in State and Federal Elections, and does not have a defined list of acceptable forms of identification.
If you do not have one
Carry a second document
Checking. Delaware lets a voter without ID sign an Affirmation of Voter Identity rather than show a second document, so there may be nothing to print here. We are confirming that 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 Delaware Department of Elections administers elections in Delaware. 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 Delaware 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 Delaware Department of Elections.
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
Friday, October 30, 2026 is the last day to request an absentee ballot that will be mailed to you. Delaware absentee voting requires a reason permitted by State law, listed on the absentee application.
Facts · Read Oct 26It has to be back by
Received, not postmarked: your county Department of Elections office must receive it by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Absentee ballots cannot be returned to early voting sites or polling places.
Facts · Read Oct 26Track your ballot
The state says to check on the status of your absentee ballot with the State's Voter Portal, or call the Department.
Facts · Read Oct 26If your signature is questioned
Checking. We have not found the Delaware Department of Elections describing how to fix a problem with a returned absentee ballot, so we print nothing yet. Ask your state election office.
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 Delaware
From the Department of Elections' description of election officer duties.
Facts · Read Oct 26Time off to vote
Checking. We have not found the Delaware Department of Elections 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 Delaware Department of Elections, 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 Delaware Department of Elections pages. Delaware Department of Elections is the final word. See something wrong? Report it.