1. Check Your Registration Status: My Voter Information – Voter Search (ohiosos.gov). Is your address correct?
2. Register or update your address no later than 30 days before each election. Last day to register is 10/7/2024 for the 11/5/2024 Presidential election.
   • Register or update your address online at the Ohio Secretary of State website (https://olvr.ohiosos.gov/).
   • Or you can go online to print a form and mail it to your County Board of Elections.
   • Or you can register in person at any public library or Ohio BMV.
3. Vote!
   • Early vote 10/8/2024 – 11/3/2024 at your Board of Elections.
     • Hamilton County Board of Elections, 4700 Smith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45212. Election Calendar (votehamiltoncountyohio.gov).
     • Butler County Board of Elections, 1802 Princeton Road, Suite 600, Hamilton, OH 45011.
     • Clermont County Board of Elections, 76 S Riverside Dr, Batavia OH 45103
     • Warren County Board of Elections, 520 Justice Dr, Lebanon OH 45036
     • Check for your county here: early voting by county.
   • Vote by mail. Fill out an application to vote by mail now! You simply need your SSN and date of birth as your ID.
     • The deadline to request an absentee ballot is close of business seven days before Election Day.
     • Mail the request form back to your own county board of elections. Board mailing addresses are available at OhioSoS.gov/boards.
     • “Wait to receive your ballot in the mail from your county board of elections. If you have questions about your absentee ballot request, you should call your county board of elections or you can track the status of your ballot request as well as your voted absentee ballot through the Voter Toolkit.” Absentee Voting – Ohio Secretary of State (ohiosos.gov).
     • “If you return your absentee ballot by mail, it must be postmarked no later than the day before Election Day and received by your county board of elections no later than four days after the election.” Absentee Voting – Ohio Secretary of State (ohiosos.gov).
   • Vote on Election Day at your assigned polling location. Bring ID!
4. Encourage others to vote. Did your family and friends early vote or get their ballot in the mail the day before Election Day?

NOTE to college students and other mobile people: The Ohio Secretary of State describes “permanent address” in the following way.  https://www.ohiosos.gov/elections/voters/voter-eligibility-residency-reqs/:  

“WHERE IS MY RESIDENCE FOR VOTING PURPOSES?

Your residence is important because it determines which offices and issues you are eligible to vote on (e.g., the proper congressional district, school district, etc.). Under Ohio law, your residence is (1) the location that you consider to be a permanent, not a temporary, residence and (2) the place where your habitation is fixed and where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return. If you do not have a fixed place of habitation, but you are a consistent or regular inhabitant of a shelter or other location where you intend to return, you may use that location as your residence for the purposes of registering to vote.”

“MAY A COLLEGE STUDENT REGISTER AND VOTE FROM HIS OR HER SCHOOL ADDRESS IN OHIO?

It depends. A college student may vote using his or her Ohio school residence address if the student does not intend to return to a different permanent address. When a college student registers to vote from his or her school address, the school residence is considered to be the place to which the student’s habitation is fixed and to which, whenever the student is absent, the student intends to return, and is considered by the student to be his or her permanent residence at the time of voting. Any other previous residence for voting purposes is no longer valid. It is illegal for a person to register and vote from two different addresses.”

So if you are in college or otherwise living in Ohio, intend to live in your college town during the school year or other Ohio location during the year, and have no definite plans to return to another place (and who does at this stage in your life), then you can register to vote near your college or other Ohio location and use your dormitory address or college town or other Ohio address to register.