Where, when and how to vote in Dallas County

Early voting: Oct. 19 – Oct. 30

Dallas County votes at vote centers: any registered Dallas County voter can vote at any of the county's 84 early-voting sites. They're open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19, through Saturday, Oct. 24; noon to 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 25; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, through Friday, Oct. 30. The map's wait times are the ones the Elections Department reports for each site during early-voting hours.

Election Day: Tuesday, Nov. 3

On Election Day you can vote at any of the county's 444 vote centers, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. If you're in line by 7 p.m., you can vote. Enter your address in the guide above to find the vote centers nearest you.

Your address decides which races are on your ballot, wherever you vote. See yours with the county's sample ballot lookup.

Parts of the city of Dallas are in Collin County and Denton County. If you live there, your county runs your election: see Collin County Elections or Denton County Elections.

Voting by mail

Texas lets you vote by mail only if one of these applies:

• You're 65 or older on Election Day
• You're sick or disabled
• You'll be outside Dallas County on Election Day and throughout early voting
• You expect to give birth within three weeks before or after Election Day
• You're in jail but otherwise eligible to vote

Your application must reach the Elections Department by Friday, Oct. 23, before the office closes.

Mail your voted ballot so it's postmarked by 7 p.m. on Election Day and arrives by Wednesday, Nov. 4. Or hand-deliver it yourself, with photo ID, to the Elections Department at 1520 Round Table Dr. on Election Day only, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. You must deliver your own ballot. Vote centers do not accept mail ballots.

If there's a problem with your mail ballot, such as a missing or mismatched ID number, the county will tell you how to fix it. You have until Monday, Nov. 9. Track your mail ballot in the Texas Secretary of State's voter portal.

What to bring

Bring one of these photo IDs. If you're 18 to 69, it can be expired for up to four years; if you're 70 or older, it can be expired for any length of time.

• Texas driver's license
• Texas Election Identification Certificate
• Texas personal ID card
• Texas handgun license
• U.S. military ID card with your photo
• U.S. citizenship certificate with your photo
• U.S. passport (book or card)

No photo ID? If you have a reasonable impediment to getting one, you can show a supporting document, such as your voter registration certificate, a utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck, and sign a Reasonable Impediment Declaration at the vote center. Otherwise you can vote a provisional ballot; it counts only if you then show an accepted ID to the county voter registrar, by Tuesday, Nov. 10, the last day the Elections Department lists.

Phones and other devices aren't allowed where you vote, so print your sample ballot or write down your choices if you want them with you.

Getting there

For every site, the guide lists the nearest DART stop and the routes that serve it, and the directions links open your maps app with transit directions.

On Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, DART rides are free to the polls on buses, trains, GoLink, the Dallas Streetcar and paratransit when you show your valid voter registration card. For GoLink, use promo code VOTENOV3 in the GoPass app. DART's details.

Accessibility

Every vote center has accessible voting equipment. If you can't go inside without help or risk to your health, you can vote curbside: an election worker brings the ballot to your car. You can bring someone to help you vote, as long as it isn't your employer or an officer or agent of your union.

More on voting with a disability from the Elections Department.

About this guide

Sites, hours, precincts, districts and wait times come from the Dallas County Elections Department; bus and rail stops and routes from DART's published timetable; map geography from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Dallas Standard is not affiliated with the Elections Department. Confirm details at dallascountyvotes.org.