Important Dates and Deadlines

2024 GENERAL ELECTION

Event Date
Election Day

November 5, 2024

In-person voting at polling locations runs 7 a.m. - 7 p.m. To vote in person on Election Day, the voter must vote at the assigned polling location. Picture and signature ID are required.

Deadline for Supervisor of Elections to begin sending vote-by-mail ballots to members of the uniformed services and Merchant Marine, such members’ dependents, and overseas voters  September 21, 2024
In-person vote-by-mail ballot pickup begins for voters and designees

September 23, 2024

ALL PERSONS PICKING UP A VOTE-BY-MAIL BALLOT MUST PROVIDE PICTURE ID. Any designee picking up a ballot on behalf of a voter must provide a note from the voter AND must complete the designee pickup affidavit.
Deadline to register to vote in the General Election October 7, 2024*
About Early Voting (duvalelections.gov) (in-person voting at designated
Duval County early voting sites)

October 21, 2024 - November 3, 2024

Any eligible voter registered and living in Duval County may vote at any Duval County early voting site during early voting. Picture and signature ID are required.

Deadline for Supervisor of Elections
to receive a request to send a
vote-by-mail ballot via mail 
October 24, 2024, 5 p.m.
 
HOWEVER, persons eligible to have vote-by-mail ballots delivered to them by email or fax (active-duty uniformed services and Merchant Marine members living outside Duval County; such members’ spouses and dependents living outside Duval County, and overseas voters) may continue requesting vote-by-mail ballots to be delivered to them by email or fax after this deadline of 5 p.m. Eastern Time twelve days prior to Election Day. Requests received after 7 p.m. Eastern Time on Election Day will not be processed for that election, and the voted ballot must be received by the Supervisor of Elections by the deadline regardless of when the ballot is requested.
Additional requirement for in-person vote-by-mail ballot pickup begins for voters and designees

October 26, 2024

Beginning this date, all persons picking up a vote-by-mail ballot must complete an emergency affidavit. As before, ALL PERSONS PICKING UP A VOTE-BY-MAIL BALLOT MUST PROVIDE PICTURE ID. Also as before, designees must provide a note from the voter AND must complete the designee pickup affidavit.
Deadline for late registration
for qualified voters* 
November 1, 2024, 5 p.m.*
Deadline for Supervisor of Elections
to receive a voted vote-by-mail ballot 

Election Day, November 5, 2024, 7 p.m.

Overseas voters have a 10-day deadline extension for ballots returned by mail in a presidential preference primary election and in a general election. That extended deadline is November 15, 2024. For an overseas ballot to count after Election Day, November 5, the overseas voted ballot must be postmarked or dated no later than Election Day, November 5, 2024, and received by the Supervisor of Elections of the county in which the voter is registered to vote no later than November 15. Ballots returned by overseas voters by fax must be returned by Election Day, November 5, 2024, at 7 p.m.

Deadline for persons voting a provisional ballot to provide evidence of eligibility to Supervisor of Elections

Deadline for persons voting either a vote-by-mail ballot or a provisional ballot to cure a signature deficiency

November 7, 2024, 5 p.m.

 

*Late registration is available for any individual or accompanying family member who has been discharged or separated from the uniformed services or the United States Merchant Marine, has returned from a military deployment or activation, or has separated from employment outside the territorial limits of the United States, after the book-closing date for an election and who is otherwise qualified. Such a person may register to vote in said election until 5 p.m. on the Friday before that election in the office of the Supervisor of Elections. Such person must produce sufficient documentation showing evidence of qualifying for late registration.