Voters — Early Voting
WHERE? — The Clerk of the County Commission (County Clerk) holds the responsibility for early voting. The location will be in the County Courthouse or on the property of the courthouse.
WHEN? — See the Absentee Calendar for specific dates and Early Voting Hours by County. The regular period of early voting in person begins twenty days before the election and continues until three days before the election. Voting is available during regular business hours and may be available two Saturdays before the election.
HOW? — Go to the County Clerk's Office and ask to vote early in-person.You will then vote as you would on election day, in a voting booth just as at the precinct. If a paper ballot is used, your voted ballot will be sealed in an envelope and placed in the ballot box.
On election day, your ballot will go to the precinct where it will be counted or placed with other ballots for computer tabulation.
What is required at the courthouse voting place? — The law sets many of the same requirements for setting up the place for in-person absentee voting as it does for a regular polling place. These are the requirements:
- A sufficient number of voting booths or devices must be available
- Booths or devices must be in an area separate from but within clear view of the public entrance area to the absentee clerk's office or other area designated for absentee voting
- Booths or devices must be arranged to provide the voter with complete privacy
- The location shall not allow interference with the voter
- Ballots, voted and unvoted, are to be secured at all times
- The location must be accessible to voters with physical disabilities
- No electioneering is allowed on property of county courthouse or any annex facilities during the period of regular in-person absentee voting (20 days to 3 days before election)