Vote By Mail

Individuals 65 and over on Election Day

Individuals who are sick or have a disability and affirmatively indicate on the application that they “have a sickness or physical condition that prevents [them] from appearing at the polling place on election day without a likelihood of needing personal assistance or injuring [their] health”

Individuals who are confined in jail

Individuals who will be outside of their county during Early Vote AND Election Day

Individuals who are expecting to give birth within three weeks before or after Election Day

If you have access to a printer and computer, you can print an application here (or here for the Spanish language version)

• Mail or hand deliver your completed application to your local County Early Voting Clerk. You can find the address for your Early Voting Clerk here.

Any voter who applies to vote by mail for reason of disability or physical condition must also affirmatively indicate on the application that they “have a sickness or physical condition that prevents [them] from appearing at the polling place on election day without a likelihood of needing personal assistance or injuring [their] health.”

The decision to apply to vote by mail based on a disability or physical condition is your own (subject to a correct understanding of the law). Your county clerk has no responsibility to question or investigate your application unless you provide additional information explaining your specific disability or physical condition.

The following do NOT constitute sufficient cause to vote by mail:

• lack of transportation;

• needing to be on-site at work; or

• a sickness that does not prevent you from appearing at the polling place on Election Day without a likelihood of needing personal assistance or of injuring your health.

You can add your ID number to your application on the Secretary of State's online tracker portal.

Once you've added your ID number online, your application should be complete and your local Early Voting Clerk will mail your ballot.

We recommend voters include BOTH an ID number (either Texas Driver’s License, State ID number, or election ID certificate if you have neither) AND the last four digits of their social security number to ensure that their application and ballot is accepted.

If the ID numbers included on the application and ballot both bring up the same voter when searched in the Secretary of State’s records, then the numbers will be accepted and the ballot signature will still be presumed to be that of the voter.

Voters are now able to hand-deliver their mail-in ballot application in-person at their Early Voting Clerk’s office through the day of the deadline.

If you are not able to hand-deliver your application, you also have the option to overnight your application via USPS or a common contract carrier, such as UPS and FedEx. Remember, it must arrive at the Early Voting Clerk’s office by closing time on the day of the deadline.

You can also submit your application via email or fax, but you must also mail the original, hard copy of your application to your county early voting clerk, and it must be received by your county within 4 business days of your email/fax.

• First, complete the application here, print it out, and sign it.

• Email or fax a photo or scanned version of your application to the early voting clerk of your county by the application deadline. You can find the email address and fax number for your early voting clerk here.

• Then, you must also mail the original, hard copy of the application to your early voting clerk, and it must be received within four business days of your email/fax. You can find the mailing address for your early voting clerk here.

You have the option of voting an Emergency Ballot. A registered voter who becomes disabled or hospitalized on or after the deadline may fill out this application, have a physician, chiropractor, or accredited Christian Science practitioner complete the affidavit section, and have a friend, family member, or other representative deliver the application and pick up a ballot from the early voting clerk.

The application can be submitted until 5:00 pm on Election Day. Then, the voter can mark the ballot, and their representative can personally deliver it back to the early voting clerk’s office before 7:00 pm on Election Day.

There are special provisions and deadlines to make voting easier for military personnel and citizens living overseas. Get more information here.