Office of Elections

CONTACT INFORMATION: Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
703-222-0776 TTY 711
12000 Government Center Parkway Suite 323
Fairfax, VA 22035
Eric L. Spicer
General Registrar and Director of Elections

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In-Person Early Voting

What You Need to Know

  • In-person early voting will be available from September 20 through November 2 for the November 5 General and Special Elections.
  • Only Fairfax County registered voters may vote at any Fairfax County early voting location. 
  • Voters must present an acceptable ID or may sign an ID Confirmation Statement.
  • Curbside voting is available for eligible voters.
  • Absentee by mail voters may vote early in person if they choose. If you received a ballot in the mail, you must bring it with you and surrender it to vote in person. If you received a ballot but do not bring it with you, you may vote a provisional ballot. Mail ballot dropboxes are available during early voting location operating hours.
  • Same-day registration is available between Oct. 16 and Nov. 2 at early voting locations. Voters submitting a same-day registration will vote a provisional ballot.
  • View a map of Fairfax County’s early voting locations.
  • Questions? Email earlyvoting@fairfaxcounty.gov or check our FAQs.

FAQs

For early voting locations and schedules, view here. Unlike election day voting, when voters must vote in their precinct, during early voting, any Fairfax County voter may vote at any Fairfax County early voting location.

No. Any voter registered in Fairfax County may vote early. Students registered in Fairfax County may return from school in another county or state to vote early.

However, to vote normally, you will need to provide your name and address and present an acceptable ID, just as you would at your polling place on election day. If you don’t have an acceptable ID, you may complete an ID Confirmation Statement, which serves as an acceptable ID and will allow you to check in and vote routinely. Alternately, you may vote a provisional ballot and provide a copy of your ID to the Office of Elections before noon on the Friday after the election.

Your ballot is counted when you feed it into the digital scan voting machine. However, the votes on the voting machines are not tallied until election day and are not reported until after 7 p.m. on election night.

No, an absentee ballot application is not used for in-person early voting.

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