The Texas voter registration deadline is Tuesday, Oct. 11. Here’s how to check your status and register.

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Tuesday, Oct. 11, is the deadline in Texas to register to vote to have the ability to take part within the 2022 midterm elections, the place voters will forged their ballots on every thing from the gubernatorial race between Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke to native races for county choose and state consultant.

Texas is one in all a handful of states with a voter registration deadline 30 days earlier than the election. Right here’s what it’s good to find out about checking your standing and registering to vote earlier than the tip of day Tuesday.

How do I test if I’m registered to vote?

You’ll be able to test to see should you’re registered and confirm your info on the Texas secretary of state’s web site.

You’ll want one of many following three combos to log in:

• Your Texas driver’s license quantity and date of beginning.
• Your first and final names, date of beginning and county you reside in.
• Your date of beginning and Voter Distinctive Identifier quantity, which seems in your voter registration certificates.

Who can register to vote in Texas?

U.S. residents in Texas can register to vote within the election if they’re 18 or older or if they are going to be 18 by Election Day, which is Nov. 8.

Residents within the state can’t register to vote if they’ve been convicted of a felony and are nonetheless serving a sentence, together with parole or probation, or if they’ve been deemed mentally incapacitated by a court docket. Listed here are extra specifics on eligibility.

How do I register to vote?

You’ll have to fill out and submit a paper voter registration utility by Oct. 11.

You’ll be able to request a postage-paid utility by means of the mail or discover one at county voter registrars’ workplaces and a few submit workplaces, authorities workplaces or excessive colleges. It’s also possible to print out the net utility and mail it to the voter registrar in your county.

Functions have to be postmarked by the Oct. 11 deadline. Obtain your utility right here.

Moreover, you may register to vote by means of the Texas Division of Public Security whereas renewing your driver’s license, even should you’re doing so on-line. That is the one type of on-line registration within the state.

After you register to vote, you’ll obtain a voter registration certificates inside 30 days. It’ll comprise your voter info, together with the Voter Distinctive Identifier quantity wanted to replace your voter registration on-line. If the certificates has incorrect info, you’ll want to notice corrections and ship it to your native voter registrar as quickly as attainable.

The voter registration certificates may also be used as a secondary type of ID while you vote should you don’t have one of many seven state-approved picture IDs. Extra data on that right here.

What if I’ve moved?

You have to reside in a Texas county by the voter registration deadline to vote within the upcoming election except you qualify for absentee voting. You’ll be able to learn extra about absentee and mail-in voting right here.

School college students who’re registered at a residence in Texas, similar to a mother or father’s dwelling, however are learning out of state can apply for absentee ballots. College students learning in Texas who’re from different states also can select to register to vote within the state with their dorm or Texas tackle.

Eligible individuals experiencing homelessness can vote, so long as they supply on their registration an tackle and outline for the place they’re residing. If wanted, their mailing tackle could be totally different, however a P.O. field tackle can’t be listed as a residence tackle.

Tuesday can also be the final day to submit an tackle change for the midterm elections. You’ll be able to report an tackle or identify change on-line. You need to do that should you’ve moved because the final time you voted, particularly when you’ve got moved to a distinct county or political subdivision or have legally taken a distinct identify.

What do I do if I run into points with my voter registration?

If a county suspects you might have modified tackle however your registration has not been up to date, chances are you’ll be be positioned on a “suspense record.” Voters positioned on the suspense record can nonetheless vote in the event that they replace or verify their tackle earlier than the voter registration deadline for an election or fill out a “assertion of residence” when voting, however they might must vote at their earlier polling location or vote on a restricted poll.

Restricted ballots can be found solely throughout early voting at a “principal early voting polling place,” which is normally the workplace of the elections administrator or county clerk who runs elections in your county. The principle early voting polling place ought to be famous in a county’s record of early voting areas.

Whereas the state conducts critiques of voter rolls to take away what officers suspect is likely to be ineligible registrations, federal legislation prevents the state from eradicating registered voters inside 90 days of a federal election except the voter has died, been convicted of a felony or been declared mentally incapacitated.

If in case you have questions or issues about your registration, you could find your county’s voter registration contact right here.

Inside polling areas, there are usually “decision desks” the place ballot staff can tackle registration points.

It’s also possible to discover extra info on regularly requested questions from the secretary of state’s workplace at votetexas.gov.

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