Know Your Rights

Know Your Rights - Resources

Know your Voting Rights, ACLU Texas:
www.aclutx.org/en/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-voting-rights

Texas Voter Rights, Texas Secretary of State’s Office:
www.votetexas.gov/your-rights

What to do if you encounter voter intimidation, Campaign Legal Center:
campaignlegal.org/update/what-do-if-you-encounter-voter-intimidation

Fact Sheet: Protecting Against Voter Intimidation, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown University Law Center:
www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2020/10/Voter-Intimidation-Fact-Sheet.pdf

Fact Sheet: Unlawful Militias in Texas, Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, Georgetown University Law Center:
www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2020/09/Texas.pdf

Texas law states that: “No-one except licensed peace officers may carry handguns into the polling place.”:
www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/laws/advisory2019-22.shtml

Harris County, Special Circumstances

You may submit an application for a late ballot because of sickness or disability after the last day of early voting and before 5:00pm on election day. In order to qualify the sickness or disability must originate on or after the 12th day before election day. (Secs. 102.001; 102.003).

You may submit an application to vote due to a death in the immediate family that occurred on or after the 5th day before election day and will be absent from the county on election day. (Secs. 103.001; 103.003b).

Voters are required to submit an application for these specific instances. Please contact the Elections Division at 713-755-3150 for questions.

For more information about special circumstances, please click the following link: Harris Votes - Special Circumstances