{"id":468209,"date":"2026-10-16T21:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:40:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:40:33","slug":"collin-county-early-voting-begins-oct-19-mckinney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468209\/","title":{"rendered":"Collin County early voting begins Oct. 19 | McKinney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Collin County voters can cast their ballots for the upcoming Nov. 3 general election during the early voting period from Oct. 19-30.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Collin County residents can vote at more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/Elections\/polling-locations?electionId=75&amp;scheduleType=ev&amp;electionDesc=November%203,%202026%20Uniform%20Election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">40 polling locations<\/a> during the early voting period, and at more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/Elections\/polling-locations?electionId=75&amp;scheduleType=ed&amp;electionDesc=November%203,%202026%20Uniform%20Election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">90 locations on Election Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Polling location operating hours vary, according to the Collin County Election Office\u2019s website and are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 19-23, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 24, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 25, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 26-30, 7 a.m.-7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The last day to apply for a ballot by mail is Oct. 23. Additional early voting information can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collincountytx.gov\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">www.collincountytx.gov\/elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s on the ballot?<\/p>\n<p>Collin County voters will have the opportunity to vote for representatives at the local, county, state and federal levels.<\/p>\n<p>Collin County seats on the ballot include county judge, county clerk, county commissioner for precinct 4 and Collin County Appraisal District, place 2. Several state senators and representatives are up for election, as well as Texas governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and railroad commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Collin County residents will also consider a 4-proposition, <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/frisco\/government\/collin-county-calls-8175m-bond-to-address-growth-needs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">$817.5 million bond package<\/a> from Collin County, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/mckinney\/election\/voters-to-consider-600-million-collin-college-bond-in-november-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">$600 million bond proposition<\/a> from Collin College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collin County voters can cast their ballots for the upcoming Nov. 3 general election during the early voting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3462,33257,46470,960,2065,22956,160,162,161,11202],"class_list":["post-468209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-ballot","tag-bond-package","tag-collin-college","tag-collin-county","tag-early-voting","tag-general-election","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-polling-locations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}