HOW TO REGISTER TO VOTE

Registering to vote for the first time:

• Mail or deliver the application to:

Hays County Elections Office >> or the county in which you live
120 Stagecoach Trail 
San Marcos, TX 78666

• If you are unable to print, this form is available by mail from the Elections Office. Request at elections@co.hays.tx.us. Return by mail – postage paid.

• Check with your local library for the postage paid voter registration application.

• Attend a League of Women Voters of Hays County voter registration event. Note the Upcoming Voter Registration Events calendar on this page.. 

If you have any questions and would like to get in touch with a Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR), please contact one of our representatives:

Dripping Springs Coordinator, Lesa Haney
San Marcos Coordinator, Ida Miller
Wimberley Coordinator, Mary Skillman 

REQUIREMENTS TO REGISTER

• Be a U.S. citizen
• Be 18 years old (or at least 17 years, 10 months old) today
• Your home address, including county
• Your Texas drivers license (or ID) number OR last four digits of social security number

UPDATE YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION

While your first-time voter registration in Texas cannot be done online and MUST be signed by you in person.

While you can update your address after a move or change your name online through the Texas Secretary of State's Voter Name and Address Changes web pages, it is easier and more secure to update your registration through the Hays County Elections Office or one of the LWV of Hays County's many volunteer deputy registrars (VDRs) and their voter registration events around the county.

Find your VUID number on your voter registration card, at "Am I Registered" at VoteTexas.gov, or through the first QR code to the Hays County Elections  tool to the right, or by calling their office (see the number below. (There have been some glitches, including false negatives, with the state's tool.)

The Hays County's registration tool can only tell you that you are registered and what precinct, but not whether you are registered at your current address. To double-check to make sure you are, call the Elections Office at (512) 393-7310.

If you want to double-check your registration status in Hays County, the Hays County Elections Office provides this link (or use the QR code to the right. You cannot see whether the Elections Office has the correct address for you, but you can verify that you are registered and in which precinct you are registered. To make sure they have your current address, call the Elections Office at 512-393-7310‬.

The deadline to update your voter registration for a name change or change of address is the the same deadline to register to vote for that particular election.

VOTER NAME AND ADDRESS CHANGES