{"id":468333,"date":"2026-10-17T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468333\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T00:20:10","slug":"dallas-county-early-voting-begins-oct-19-richardson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/468333\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas County early voting begins Oct. 19 | Richardson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas County voters can cast their ballots for the Nov. 3 general election during the early voting period from Oct. 19-30.<\/p>\n<p>What to know<\/p>\n<p>Voters are able to cast their ballots countywide at more than 80 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/elections\/VoteCenters\/Early%20Voting%20Vote%20Centers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">locations<\/a>  during the early voting period and more than 440 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/elections\/VoteCenters\/Election%20Day%20Vote%20Centers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">vote centers<\/a> on Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas County polling locations will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., except for Oct. 25 when polling hours are noon to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The last day to apply for a ballot by mail is Oct. 23. More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascountyvotes.org\/voters\/election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/www.dallascountyvotes.org\/voters\/election<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s on the ballot<\/p>\n<p>Dallas County voters will cast ballots for a number of federal, state and county <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/richardson\/election\/what-richardson-residents-need-to-know-for-early-midterm-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">races<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dallas County seats on the ballot include county judge, county commissioner precinct 2, county clerk and a <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/richardson\/election\/dallas-county-voters-to-decide-on-proposition-to-address-homelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">proposed tax increase<\/a> to address homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>To see more details on local races, check out a sample ballot and read the latest local election news, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/communityimpact.com\/election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">communityimpact.com\/election<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas County voters can cast their ballots for the Nov. 3 general election during the early voting period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3462,102,581,156773,104,103,2065,22956,11202,96055],"class_list":["post-468333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-ballot","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-county-voters","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-early-voting","tag-general-election","tag-polling-locations","tag-vote-centers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468333","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=468333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}