How to Register and Vote
  

or you can print your own registration form.

How and where to vote early in Travis County.

For additional information on early voting in Austin, including locations other than the permanent locations listed below, contact the City Clerk's Office at 499-2210.

Permanent early voting polling places:

Austin Recreation Center	1301 Shoal Creek Blvd.
Downtown	206 East 9th Street
Randalls Food Market	2025 West Ben White Blvd.
Northcross Mall	2525 West Anderson Lane
University of Texas (West Mall)	Flawn Academic Center Lobby
ACC-Riverside Campus	1020 Grove Blvd.
A. B. Cantu/Pan American Recreation Center	2100 East 3rd St.
Rosewood Recreation Center	2300 Rosewood Ave.
South Austin Recreation Center	1100 Cumberland Road
Spicewood Springs Branch Library	8637 Spicewood Springs Road
University Hills Branch Library	4721 Loyola Lane
Will Hampton Branch Library at Oak Hill	5125 Convict Hill Road
North Austin Medical Center	12221 MoPac Expressway North

• Complete a postage-free post card application and mail it, or take it in person to the voter registrar in your county.
• You must be at least 17 years and ten months of age on the date of your application is received.
• Your application must be received 30 days before an election for you to be eligible to vote in that election.
• Your spouse, parent or child (acting as an agent) may complete and sign a voter registration application for you, provided that this person is registered voter, or has applied for voter registration.

• Check your certificate to make sure all information is correct. (If there is a mistake, immediately make corrections and return it to the registrar.)
• Present your certificate at the polling place on election day.
• You will receive a color-coded certificate every two years.
• The color of the 1994-1995 voter registration certificate is yellow and white.

1. correcting the information on your current voter registration certificate and returning it to the voter registrar; or
2. completing a voter registration change form (contact your county voter registrar or the Secretary of State's office for a form).

• Your spouse, parent or child (acting as an agent) may complete and sign a change of address form for you, provided that this person is a registered voter, or has applied for registration.
• You will receive a new, corrected certificate.
• You will be able to vote in your new precinct 30 days after your notice has been received.

  Meanwhile:

• You may vote in your former precinct for one year after the date of change of residence or until your voter registration becomes effective in the new precinct, whichever is earliest.
• You must notify the voter registrar of your change of address as soon as possible, but not less than one year after moving.

Change of Address Moving to Another County

• You must re-register! Complete an application and mail it or take it in person to the voter registrar in your new county.
• You will be registered 30 days after your application is received.
• You will receive a new certificate.
• You may be eligible to vote a limited ballot in your new county of residence for 90 days after moving if:

1. you were qualified to vote in your former county at the time you moved;
2. there is an election in 90 days after moving; and
3. your registration in the new county is not yet effective.

• If you vote a limited ballot, you may vote on all statewide offices and propositions and for all district offices which are common to both counties.
• You must apply for a limited ballot and vote by personal appearance with the county clerk or elections administrator of your new county between the 20th day and 4th day before an election, or by mail if you are already eligible to vote by mail.

If You Lose or Misplace Your Certificate:

• Notify the voter registrar in writing and they will issue a new one.
• You may vote without your certificate by signing an affidavit at the polling place.

• Your spouse, parent or child (acting as an agent) may complete and sign a change of name for you, provided that this person is a registered voter or has applied for registration.
• You will receive a new, corrected certificate 30 days after your notice is received.
• You may continue to vote. Vote by affidavit during this time if you used your certificate as your notice of name change.

• After you have become a registered voter, you may wish to become a volunteer deputy registrar by applying with the voter registrar of your county.

• A county is composed of many precincts.
  
• Voters are registered within a precinct according to their residence address.
  
• Affidavit is a sworn statement made before an authorized person.
  
• Agent is a spouse, parent or child who may register for you or change registration information for you.
  
• Voter Registrar is, in most counties, your Tax Assessor-Collector, whose responsibility includes voter registration. In some counties, it is the County Clerk or an Elections Administrator.
  
• Voting Station is the voting booth or other place where voters mark their ballots or otherwise indicate their voters at a polling place.

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