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 10/5/2026 for Election Day on 11/3/2026.
   • Register or update your address online at the Ohio Secretary of State website (https://olvr.ohiosos.gov/).
   • Or you can go online to ohiosos.gov, print Form SEC 4010 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 10/6/2026 – 11/1/2026 at your Board of Elections.
     • Hamilton County Board of Elections, 4700 Smith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45212. Dates and hours of operation are in the Election Calendar at votehamiltoncountyohio.gov/calendar/.
     • 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.
     • FAQs about Absentee Voting – Ohio Secretary of State (ohiosos.gov). If you have questions about your absentee ballot request, you can call your County Board of Elections or you can track the status of your ballot request as well as your voted absentee ballot through your County Board of Elections or Ohio’s state tracking system.
     • Mail your ballot early enough to allow for postal delivery by 730p on Election Day. Ohio no longer allows ballots to be postmarked the day before the Election Day and received with four days after Election Day. Absentee Voting – Ohio Secretary of State (ohiosos.gov). Ohio Republican lawmakers and Governor DeWine changed the rule in 2025 with Ohio Senate Bill 293.
   • 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/frequently-asked-questions#college-voters:  

“Voting from Your Campus Address (In Ohio)

If you attend college in Ohio, you may register and vote using your campus residence address if you consider it your permanent address and do not intend to return elsewhere.”

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.