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The deadline has passed. Ask Florida what you can still do.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered. If you are not, do it now.
Go to Florida registration →Vote early October 24 to October 31
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October 24 to 31, 2026 is the mandatory statewide window every county must offer. Counties may add optional days as early as October 19 and as late as November 1, and set site hours of 8 to 12 hours a day, so check your county Supervisor of Elections.
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 Precinct Lookup; select your county link. Your polling place is also on your voter information card and in the Voter Information Look-up. On Election Day you must vote at your assigned precinct.Read October 26, 2026 from Florida Division of Elections.
Early voting sitesThe Division of Elections publishes the statewide list of early voting sites and secure ballot intake stations for this election, and links every county Supervisor of Elections for local hours.Read October 30, 2026 from Florida Division of Elections.
Eligible and registered voters can cast a ballot prior to Election Day at any designated early voting site within their county of registration during early voting days and hours.Florida Division of Elections, read October 30, 2026.
Registered at home but living somewhere else?What Florida says to do when the address you are registered at is not the address you live at.
If you moved within the same county, you can change your legal residence at the polling place by signing an affirmation and vote there. If you moved from outside the county, you cannot change your legal residence at the polling place and must vote a provisional ballot, unless the county you moved to uses an electronic database as a precinct register at the polling place, or you are an active uniformed services voter or a member of their family.
Florida Statutes 101.045(2). Whether the county you moved to uses an electronic precinct register decides which of these applies, so ask your county Supervisor of Elections before Election Day. If you have not moved your legal residence, you vote where you are registered.
Florida’s own rule, read October 30, 2026.
All the datesRegistering online, by mail and in person, checking your registration, your polling place, and when polls close in Florida.
Register by
Monday, October 5, 2026, 29 days before the election. Florida calls this book closing.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register online
Online at RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov. The deadline to register for an upcoming election is 29 days before the election.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register by mail
Checking. Florida prints October 5, 2026 as the registration deadline, but neither its registration pages, its voter registration FAQ, nor the instructions on the state application form (DS-DE 39) say whether a mailed application must be postmarked by that day or received by it, so we do not print a mail deadline. Mail it early or register online. Ask your state election office.
Register in person
In person at your county Supervisor of Elections office, at any tax collector office that issues Florida driver licenses or state IDs, or through any designated voter registration agency.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered
The state calls this the Voter Information Look-up. New registrations can take a business day or two to appear.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register online
The state register page lists Online at RegisterToVoteFlorida.gov.
Facts · Read Oct 26Early, in person
October 24 to 31, 2026 is the mandatory statewide window every county must offer. Counties may add optional days as early as October 19 and as late as November 1, and set site hours of 8 to 12 hours a day, so check your county Supervisor of Elections.
Facts · Read Oct 26Weekends
The state calendar marks the first and last days of the mandatory period as Saturdays. Whether your county adds the optional Sunday, and its hours, are set by your county Supervisor of Elections.
Facts · Read Oct 26Find your polling place
The state's Voter Precinct Lookup; select your county link. Your polling place is also on your voter information card and in the Voter Information Look-up. On Election Day you must vote at your assigned precinct.
Facts · Read Oct 26Polls close
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time. Florida spans Eastern and Central time; the state says local time, so read it on your polling place's clock.
Facts · Read Oct 26What to bringThe ID Florida accepts, and what to do if you do not have one.
ID your state accepts
- Florida driver license
- Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles
- United States passport
- Debit or credit card
- Military identification
- Student identification
- Retirement center identification
- Neighborhood association identification
- Public assistance identification
- Veteran health identification card issued by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs
- License to carry a concealed weapon or firearm issued pursuant to s. 790.06
- Employee identification card issued by any branch, department, agency, or entity of the Federal Government, the state, a county, or a municipality
Florida asks for photo and signature identification. If your photo ID does not include your signature, you will be asked to provide another ID that has your signature.
Facts · Read Oct 26If you do not have one
Carry a second document
Checking. Florida does not publish a second-document list the way some states do; it asks for a second ID carrying your signature. We are confirming the exact wording before we print a list. 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 Florida Division of Elections administers elections in Florida. 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 Florida 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 Florida Division 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
The last day to ask for a ballot to be mailed to you is 5 p.m. October 22, 2026. After that, you or a designee can still pick a ballot up from your Supervisor of Elections with an emergency affidavit, through Election Day.
Facts · Read Oct 26It has to be back by
A returned voted ballot must be received, regardless of postmark, by the Supervisor of Elections office no later than 7:00 pm local time on Election Day. A postmark does not save it. Secure drop boxes at Supervisors of Elections offices take ballots until 7:00 pm local time on Election Day.
Facts · Read Oct 26Where to drop it off
Your county Supervisor of Elections website lists the locations, days, and hours of its secure drop boxes.
Facts · Read Oct 26Track your ballot
Tracking is run by your county supervisor of elections; this state page lists every county lookup link.
Facts · Read Oct 26If your signature is questioned
The deadline to submit the form and the ID is no later than 5 p.m. local time on the 2nd day after the election.
Facts · Read Oct 26The 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 Florida
Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time.
Facts · Read Oct 26Time off to vote
Checking. We are confirming whether Florida law gives time off to vote before we print anything about it. 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 Florida Division 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.
A few of Florida’s details are still being confirmed with its election office. Those are marked Checking and link straight to the state.
Read on October 30, 2026 from your state election office, checked by AI against the Florida Division of Elections pages. Florida Division of Elections is the final word. See something wrong? Report it.