Important Dates for Voting in 2024
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May Local Election - May 4, 2024
April 4 — Voter registration deadline
April 22 — First day of early voting in person
April 23 — Last day for County Clerk to receive applications for Ballot by Mail
April 30 — Last day of early voting in person
May 4 — May Local Election Day
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Primary Runoff Election - May 28, 2024
April 29 — Voter registration deadline
May 17 — Last day for County Clerk to receive applications for Ballot by Mail
May 20 — First day of early voting in person
May 24 — Last day of early voting in person
May 28 — Primary Runoff Election Day
General Election - November 5, 2024
Oct 7 — Voter registration deadline
Oct 21 — First day of early voting in person
Oct 25 — Last day for County Clerk to receive applications for Ballot by Mail
Nov 1 — Last day of early voting in person
Nov 5 — General Election Day
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Polling Places
Early Voting
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church, 21900 1431, Lago Vista
Election Day
Christ Our Savior Lutheran Church, Lago Vista High School (5184 Lohman Ford Rd, Lago Vista), Community Center in Jonestown, Christ Episcopal Church (3520 Whitestone, Cedar Park).
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Travis County residents can vote at any polling place in Travis County on voting days. To arrange for curbside voting, call 512-854-4996 when you arrive.
Until 2020, three of our districts were located totally within Travis and were reliably Democratic. In 2021 the Republican-controlled Redistricting Committee broke all the rules to cross county lines and join us to reliably Republican counties of rural white voters. See what our Districts look like now using above link.
Voter Assistance Hotline at the Texas Democratic Party (844) 898-6837
This nonpartisan League of Women Voters Guide helps you choose one candidate in each race to vote for, based on their answers to the same LWV questions. Then you can print out a list to take with you to the polls. It’s legal. (Lists on electronic devices are not.)
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Tips for Using the
League of Women Voters Guide
Open a new browser window and paste the following link into the browser.
https://www.vote411.org/plan-your-vote
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On the opening screen, enter your address and scroll down to select Your Party, then click Save & View Races.
A list of races comes up with U.S. President listed first. Click on View Race on the right to see the Democratic candidates.
I find it simplest to go through the list in order, starting with the Presidential race. Once you decide on a candidate to support, click on My Choice next the candidate’s name, then click Save & Next button. You can always come back later and change a choice if you want.
If I get to a race with only one Democratic candidate, I select that candidate as My Choice. I’m a Democrat and vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.
If I get to a race with two or more Democratic candidates, I check the View Answers box for each one. Then scroll down to see their answers to LWV questions. Once I’ve made a decision, I click My Choice next to the one I’ve picked, then click Save & Next.
Once you’re done (gone through all the races on the list), you can print your voting selections and take them with you to the polls.
Because so many Travis county-level offices have just one Democratic in the race, the research goes quickly. I finished my picks in about 1 1/2 hours.
The Travis Primary is really important, because Republicans have largely given up the fight for county-level offices. So the Democratic winners of the Travis Primary often run unopposed or weakly opposed in November’s General Election.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the League of Women Voters for giving us a tool that makes our “due diligence” so easy. Thank you LWV!
Joan Carney, Member, North Shore Democrats of Travis County