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The deadline has passed. Ask Texas what you can still do.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered. If you are not, do it now.
Go to Texas registration →Vote early October 19 to October 30
Early voting has ended.
Early voting in person runs Monday, October 19 through Friday, October 30, 2026. You may vote at any early voting location in your county; locations and hours are set county by county and hours vary at each location.
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 My Voter Portal, populated with Election Day voting sites two days before Election Day. In counties with Vote Centers you can vote anywhere in your county; otherwise you vote at your assigned precinct.Read October 26, 2026 from Texas Secretary of State.
Registered at home but living somewhere else?What Texas says to do when the address you are registered at is not the address you live at.
We have not confirmed Texas’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 Texas.
Register online
Texas has no online registration. You can fill out the application online, but you must print it and send it to your county voter registrar by the mail deadline.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register by mail
The state says to make sure the postmark date is on or before the deadline, and warns that USPS does not always postmark mail the day it is collected. You can ask for a manual postmark at a USPS retail counter, free.
Facts · Read Oct 26Register in person
Register through your county voter registrar. October 5, 2026 is the last day to register in any manner. Texas has no same-day registration.
Facts · Read Oct 26Check you are registered
The state calls this the "Am I Registered?" portal, also named My Voter Portal. It replaced the older teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov lookup.
Facts · Read Oct 26Early, in person
Early voting in person runs Monday, October 19 through Friday, October 30, 2026. You may vote at any early voting location in your county; locations and hours are set county by county and hours vary at each location.
Facts · Read Oct 26Find your polling place
The state's My Voter Portal, populated with Election Day voting sites two days before Election Day. In counties with Vote Centers you can vote anywhere in your county; otherwise you vote at your assigned precinct.
Facts · Read Oct 26Polls close
The state prints 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. for all polling places statewide and does not add a time zone. Texas spans Central and Mountain time.
Facts · Read Oct 26What to bringThe ID Texas accepts, and what to do if you do not have one.
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)
If you do not have one
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.
Facts · Read Oct 26Make 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 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, 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.
Who can vote by mail
Texas lists five reasons: away from your county on Election Day and during early voting hours; sick or disabled; expected to give birth within three weeks before or after Election Day; 65 or older on Election Day; or confined in jail or involuntary civil commitment.
Facts · Read Oct 26Ask for your ballot by
Your application to vote by mail must be received, not postmarked, by Friday, October 23, 2026. Texas mail voting is excuse-based: you qualify if you are 65 or older, disabled, expecting to give birth within three weeks of Election Day, away from your county, or confined in jail.
Facts · Read Oct 26It 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. Different deadlines apply to military and overseas voters.
Facts · Read Oct 26Track your ballot
The Texas Secretary of State's Ballot by Mail Tracker. You can also fix an ID number problem here. You need your Texas driver license or personal ID number and the last four digits of your Social Security number.
Facts · Read Oct 26If your signature is questioned
The clerk sends a notice. Fix an ID number problem on the Ballot by Mail Tracker, or return the Corrective Action Form that came with the notice. You can also cancel the mail ballot and vote in person.
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 Texas
From the Secretary of State's closing-the-polls checklist, citing Texas Election Code 41.032.
Facts · Read Oct 26Time off to vote
Checking. Texas law on time off to vote sits in the Election Code, and we have not found the Secretary of State stating it 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 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 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 Texas Secretary of State pages. Texas Secretary of State is the final word. See something wrong? Report it.