Voter Registration Deadline For Hillsborough County Is Tuesday

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FL — Voters who aren't yet registered to vote in the Nov. 8 general election have until Tuesday to register.

Click here to submit an application online or to prefill and print a voter registration application form to sign and mail or deliver to the supervisor of elections. Voter registration application forms (English PDF / Español PDF) are also available to download.

To submit an online application, you will need:

• A Florida driver's license or Florida identification card issued by the Florida Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles.
• The last four digits of your Social Security number.

To be eligible to register to vote you must:

• Be a citizen of the United States of America;
• Be a legal resident of Florida;
• Be a legal resident of the county in which you seek to be registered;
• Be at least 16 years old to preregister or at least 18 years old to register and vote;
• Not be a person who has been adjudicated mentally incapacitated with respect to voting in Florida or any other state without having the right to vote restored; and,
• Not be a person convicted of a felony without having your right to vote restored.

Note, it is a third-degree felony to submit false information. Maximum penalties are $5,000 and/or five years in prison.

Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Craig Latimer sent more than 6,200 general election ballots to absent military and overseas voters and 316,000 ballots to domestic voters.

Vote-by-mail ballots are only available to registered voters who have requested one. Florida voters have until Oct. 29 to request that a ballot be mailed to them.

"I encourage voters who want to vote by mail to make their request as soon as possible," Latimer said. "And it's so easy. There's an online request form at VoteHillsborough.gov or voters can call my office to make their request."

Voters will need to provide their Florida driver's license, Florida ID or the last four digits of their Social Security number when making the request.

Registered voters are encouraged to click here to confirm that their information is up to date and to take a look at their sample ballot, so they know what races they will be voting on.

"Now is the time for voters to visit my website and make their voting plan," Latimer said. "Are you going to vote in person or by mail? Will you vote early or on election day? VoteHillsborough.gov is the place to go to review your options."

In-person early voting will be held in 26 locations in Hillsborough County from Oct. 24 to Nov. 6, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., and voters can choose any of those locations during that time. Click here for a list of early voting sites.

Election day is Nov. 8 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Voters who wait until election day must vote in the polling place assigned to their precinct. Click here to find early voting sites and election day precincts.