In order to vote by mail, you must first request your Vote-by-Mail ballot.

You do not need an excuse or reason to Vote-by-Mail.

Your request will apply for all elections through the end of the General Election.

You can sign up to receive notifications about your mail ballot’s status through BallotTrax. With BallotTrax, you can receive email or text notifications when your ballot is mailed, when we receive it, and when we count it. Sign up at LeonVotes.gov/BallotTrax.

You also track the status of your ballot by visiting our Check Your Voter Info page.

We will mail your ballot to the address in your voter registration record. If you have a mailing address on file, we will use that instead. Please make sure your voter registration information is up to date, as the Post Office will not forward your ballot. Instead, it will be returned to our office as undeliverable. If you need to update your residential or mailing address, please visit the Update my Registration page.

If you have a Vote-by-Mail ballot request on file, we will mail your ballot about a month before Election Day. If you request a ballot after this first mail out, we will mail your ballot within two business days of receiving your request.

You can pick up your own Vote-By-Mail ballot from our office. This is available starting as soon as the ballots become available, around 30 days before Election Day, and extends through Election Day itself.

If you pick up a Vote-by-Mail ballot within 10 days of Election Day, you will need to complete an Form for Personal Delivery of Vote-by-Mail Ballot - PDF and list an emergency that prevents you from voting in person.

You can designate a person to pick up your Vote-by-Mail ballot for you from our office. You need to have a Vote-by-Mail ballot request on file for the election, or submit a request as part of the pick-up using a Statewide Vote-by-Mail Ballot Request Form - PDF.

Both you and the person who will be picking up the ballot must fill out a Form for Personal Delivery of Vote-by-Mail Ballot - PDF. If the pick-up is within 10 days of Election Day, you will also need to complete the Emergency Affidavit part of the form.

You will receive instructions with your ballot. Make sure to sign the certificate on the envelope. In order to count, we must receive your ballot by 7 p.m. on Election Day. 

Do not insert more than one ballot in a return envelope. If you try to return more than one ballot, all ballots will be rejected.

You must sign the certificate on the Vote-by-Mail ballot envelope. We compare your signature on the envelope to the signature we have in the voter registration system to confirm your identity.

Only you can sign your Vote-by-Mail ballot envelope. Family members cannot sign for each other.  Power of attorney does not allow you to sign for someone else.

If the signature on your Vote-by-Mail ballot envelope is missing or does not match the signature we have on file, we will try to contact you to correct the problem. You will need to complete a Vote-by-Mail Ballot Cure Affidavit - PDF and send it to us along with a photocopy of your ID. The deadline to fix the signature issue is 5 p.m. on the Thursday after Election Day.

As long as you have not yet returned your Vote-by-Mail ballot, you can still choose to vote in person.

If you have additional questions about voting by mail, please contact us at (850) 606-8683 or VBM@LeonVotes.gov.