Your voter registration application must be received on or by October 5, 2020 in order to be eligible to vote in the 2020 General Election.
Eligibility
In order to register to vote, you must be a U.S. citizen, be at least 17 years and 10 months old (must be 18 years old on or before election day to vote), and a resident of the county where you submit the application.
- You cannot register to vote if declared by a court to be totally or partially mentally incapacitated. If you are convicted of a felony, you cannot register to vote until you have completed your sentence, probation, and parole. Click here for more information about the effects of a felony conviction on voter registration.
- College students may choose to register to vote at either their home address OR at their college address. See more information here.
Deadline
The deadline to register online, by mail, or in-person for the 2020 General Election is October 5, 2020.
Voter Registration Process
There are three primary methods of registering to vote in Texas: registering online, mailing in an application, or registering in-person at your county Voter Registrar’s office.
- When registering online, you are not considered registered until you have filled out the online application, printed it, signed it, and mailed it to your local County Voter Registrar. You may request a postage-paid voter registration application from your voter registrar, so that an application can be mailed to you, click here for the application.
- Further voter registration information for Texas can be found here.
This page was last updated for the 2020 Election.
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Texas offers absentee by-mail and early absentee in-person voting. Because of COVID-19, early voting for the general election has been extended. Voters are encouraged to consider voting using one of these methods in order to minimize their risk of exposure to COVID-19. Click here for a message from the Texas Secretary of State about voting in the 2020 General Election.
Vote-By-Mail Practices
In Texas, you must have a reason to be eligible to vote by mail. Eligible reasons to apply for an absentee ballot can be found here. Click here to access Texas’s Application for Ballot by Mail, or click here to have an Application for Ballot by Mail mailed to you.
- Your application for an absentee ballot must be received by the county election office by no later than eleven days before the election (October 23rd, 2020).
- A completed ballot must be received by your County Election Official on Election Day (November 3, 2020) before the polls close at 7 pm. There is one drop box location available in each county where voters can hand-deliver their ballot by mail to the early voting clerk (ID is required and voters will be asked to sign a form).
- Further absentee by-mail voting information for Texas is listed here.
Early Voting
Texas offers early voting.
- Early voting, also known as in-person absentee voting, will be available starting 22 days before the election (starting October 13, 2020) and will end 4 days before the election (October 30, 2020).
Election Day Practices
On Election Day, the polls are open 7 am-7 pm.
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