{"id":249374,"date":"2025-09-23T16:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249374\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:35:12","slug":"dont-lose-your-voice-how-to-register-to-vote-in-dallas-and-collin-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/249374\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t lose your voice:\u2019 How to register to vote in Dallas and Collin counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

With a constitutional amendment election approaching on Nov. 4 and the primaries following on March 3, it\u2019s time for anybody who is not registered to vote to get prepared. <\/p>\n

Texas law requires people to be registered 30 days before the election in which they want to cast a ballot \u2013 that means Oct. 6 for the fall election and Feb. 2 for the primaries a month later.<\/p>\n

Prospective voters have options to get registered in person or by mail and must have a Texas driver\u2019s license or personal ID number.<\/p>\n

When it\u2019s close to election time, Sandy Thornton, president of the League of Women Voters of Dallas, encourages people to register in person and make sure to follow through by casting a ballot.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t lose your voice,\u201d Thornton said.<\/p>\n

\"Voting<\/p>\n

Voting booths at the Dallas county elections training\/warehouse facility in Dallas, Texas on Sept. 13, 2024. <\/p>\n

Azul Sordo \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

First, find out if you\u2019re already registered in Dallas County here <\/a>and Collin County here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New voters in Dallas County can download, print and mail their applications \u2013 or submit them in person. They are available in English<\/a>, Spanish <\/a>and Vietnamese<\/a>. They should be mailed or turned in to the Dallas County Registrar of Voters: 1520 Round Table Drive, Dallas, TX, 75247.<\/p>\n

Applications can also be picked up at libraries, tax offices and other government buildings. Find a full list here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Collin County voters can fill out an online application in English here<\/a> and Spanish here<\/a>. It must be printed and submitted by mail or in person to the Registrar of Voters: 2010 Redbud Blvd., Suite 102, McKinney, TX, 75069. <\/p>\n

If someone doesn\u2019t have access to a printer, they pick up an application at the elections offices or can request<\/a> a no-postage form be mailed to them. Just note the county in which you are seeking to register to vote.<\/p>\n

Organizations like the League of Women Voters<\/a>, NAACP <\/a>and LULAC <\/a>often host voter registration drives to help people get signed up.<\/p>\n

People who are already registered voters but need to change their name or address can do so here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Remember that to be eligible to vote, a person must be a U.S. citizen, a resident of the county where they intend to vote and at least 18 years old (or 17 years and 10 months to register). People with felony convictions are not eligible unless their sentence, probation and parole are complete. Those declared mentally incapacitated by a court of law are not eligible. <\/p>\n

Thornton said showing up to vote is an essential exercise of American freedom and should not be wasted.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s your voice in the community and that community is local, it\u2019s statewide and it\u2019s national,\u201d Thornton said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t use our voice, we lose it \u2026 if you don\u2019t vote, someone else is speaking for you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a constitutional amendment election approaching on Nov. 4 and the primaries following on March 3, it\u2019s time…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":249375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,90,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-249374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-tx","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115254586722139469","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}