Voting Information

• As soon as you are 17 years and 10 months old, you are old enough to register to vote.
• You can vote when you turn 18 years old.

You'll need to:

• check your eligibility
• get a Texas voter registration application (pdf)
• No printer? Call Bexar County Elections Department at 210-335-8683 to have one sent to you
• Your high school principal's office should have a registration form for you to fill out
• Get a registration form at any post office or library. A librarian can even register you.
• complete the application
• use the last four (4) digits of your Social Security number if you don't have a Texas Driver License or Texas Personal Identification Card
• be sure to add a mailing address if you don't receive mail at home
• sign and date the application
• mail to: Bexar County Elections Department, 1103 S. Frio St., STE 100, San Antonio, TX 78207
• check the mail for your voter registration card 30 days after submitting the application

For more information, see the voter registration section of this website.

• Register at your former address in your county in your home state and vote an absentee ballot.
• Go to VOTE411.org to find out what your state's registration and absentee ballot requirements are.
• You may need to contact your county's elections department to register.
• Register at your new address in Bexar County and Vote In Person during Early Voting or on Election Day.

You can either:

• register at your former address in Bexar County and vote by mail if you will be at school during Early Voting and on Election Day, OR
• establish residency, register, and vote in the state where you attend college
• go to VOTE411.org to look up registration and voting requirements for that state, and contact the elections department for the county your school is in
• you can only be registered in one place at a time
• registering in a new state should cancel any previous TX registrations

• Register at your new address in the Texas county where you go to school and vote in person.
• Fill out a voter registration application (English:pdf -- Spanish:pdf ) with your address in your new county;
• Mail it to the elections department of your new county;
• Automatically cancels registration in previous TX county.
• Register at your former address in Bexar Countyand return home to vote in person during Early Voting or on Election Day.
• Register at your former address in Bexar County and vote by mail from your college.

• You do not need to have a Texas driver license to register
• You can simply use the last four (4) digits of your Social Security number
• in other states, check state requirements for registration

• Write the name of your dormitory and the main street address for your college in the "residence address" section.
• Be sure to fill in the "mailing address" section with the address you use for receiving mail if different from your "residence address."

• Your college student ID cannot be used to vote in Texas.
• See the voter ID section of this website for information on acceptable ID for voting in Texas.
• For voting in other states, check that state's voter ID requirements.

• Where you register to vote will not affect federal financial aid, such as:
• Pell Grants,
• Perkins or Stafford loans
• your dependency status for FAFSA.
• However, be sure to confirm the terms of any local or state scholarships or grants you received in your home state to be certain you will not jeopardize that funding.

Being registered to vote at a different address from your parents does not prevent them from claiming you as a dependent on their taxes.

Being deemed out-of-state for tuition purposes does not prevent you from choosing to register to vote where you go to college.