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Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Here is what Texas itself says, and when we last read it.
Register byCloses in 17 days
Election Day46 days to go
Your dates
Register by
Monday, October 5, 2026.
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
Check you are registered
The state calls this "Am I Registered?".
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
Early, in person
Early voting in person runs Monday, October 19 through Friday, October 30, 2026.
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
Find your polling place
The state calls this "Where's my Polling Place?".
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
What to bring
ID your state accepts
- Texas Driver License issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)
- Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS
- Texas Personal Identification Card issued by DPS
- Texas Handgun License issued by DPS
- United States Military Identification Card containing the person's photograph
- United States Citizenship Certificate containing the person's photograph
- United States Passport (book or card)
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
If you do not have one
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
Carry a second document
- Copy or original of a government document showing voter's name and address, including voter registration certificate
- Copy of or original current utility bill
- Copy of or original bank statement
- Copy of or original government check
- Copy of or original paycheck
- Copy or original certified domestic birth certificate or court-admissible birth document establishing identity
Texas accepts these as supporting documents with a Reasonable Impediment Declaration.
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
Make the plan
Three taps. No account. It stays on this phone.
Roll Call
Tap what you did. Everything in Roll Call is self-reported. We never ask for proof that you registered or voted, we never check, and nothing you get here depends on whether you did.
0points, self-reported
- CheckedYou checked your registration on your state lookup.Check your registration
- Plan madeYou picked the day, the place, and how you are getting there.
- First timeThis is your first time voting.
- Brought an elderYou got someone 80 or older to the polls.
- Named threeYou named three people and each one made a plan.
- Gave a rideYou offered a free ride on the rides board.
- Poll workerYou signed up to work the polls.
- On the lineYou volunteered with Election Protection.Volunteer
- Souls to the PollsYou voted on Souls to the Polls Sunday, or brought somebody who did.
Your team
Share it
Roll Call points and badges have no cash value. They cannot be redeemed, transferred, sold, or exchanged for anything, here or anywhere else. They are a tally of what you said you did.
Who runs your election
The Texas Secretary of State administers elections in Texas. 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 Texas 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 Texas Secretary of State.
Mail, honestly
Voting by mail works. It also has rules, and the rules are where ballots get lost.
Read your state block above for what your state actually requires: when to ask for the ballot, when it has to be back, and what happens if a signature is questioned. Sign exactly as you signed when you registered. Return it early rather than on the last day. If you would rather not trust the mail at all, that is a fair call: check the early in-person window in your state block and go in person.
Ask for your ballot by
Your application to vote by mail must be received, not postmarked, by Friday, October 23, 2026.
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
It has to be back by
By 7:00 p.m. on Election Day if the carrier envelope is not postmarked. If it is postmarked by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, it can arrive by 5:00 p.m. the next business day, Wednesday, November 4.
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
Track your ballot
The state Ballot by Mail Tracker. You can also fix an ID number problem here.
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
If your signature is questioned
The clerk sends a notice. Fix an ID number on the tracker, or return the Corrective Action Form that came with the notice. You can also cancel the mail ballot and vote in person.
Read on September 18, 2026 from your state election office.
The line
If 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 Texas
Checking. We are confirming how Texas states this on its own page before we print it.
Time off to vote
Checking. We are confirming the Texas time-off-to-vote rule against the statute before we print it.
Your rights
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 Texas Secretary of 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 18, 2026.
Your state election office is the final word. We print what its own pages say, with the date we read them.
Checked against the Texas Secretary of State pages by AI on September 18, 2026. Texas Secretary of State is the final word. See something wrong? Report it.