San Patricio County, Texas

Voter Information

Vote Center Information / Información del centro de votación ▲

What is a Vote Center?

A vote center is a polling place where any eligible voter in San Patricio County may go to vote. The voter is no longer restricted by precinct to one location but has the choice of which polling location they wish to vote at! San Patricio County has ten (10) Centers where you may choose to vote at:

¿Qué es un centro de votación?

Un centro de votantes es un lugar de votación donde cualquier votante elegible en el condado puede ir a votar. El votante ya no está restringido por el precincto a un lugar, pero tiene la opción de el lugar de votación donde desea votar. El Condado de San Patricio tiene ocho (8) Centros donde puede elegir votar en:

Aransas Pass Civic Center Nature Trail Room 700 W Wheeler Aransas Pass, TX 78336	GP ISD Admin Building Board Room 1200 Broadway Portland, TX 78374	Gregory City Hall Community Center 308 Ayers St Gregory, TX 78359
Humble Community Center 2821 Main St Ingleside, TX 78362	Ingleside on the Bay City Hall Board Room 475 Starlight Dr Ingleside, TX 78362	Lazy V Building 13763 HWY 181 N Sinton, TX 78387
Mathis City Hall Annex 401 E San Patricio Ave Mathis, TX 78368	Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission Parish Hall 18013 CO RD 1598 Edroy, TX 78320	Planter's Grain Co-op Meeting Room 200 N Voss Ave Odem, TX 78370
Portland Community Center 1/2 Ballroom A 2000 Billy G Webb Portland, TX 78374	San Patricio County Fairgrounds Civic Center Ballroom A 219 W 5th St Sinton, TX 78387	St. Christopher's By the Sea Parish Hall 820 Wildcat Dr Portland, TX 78374
	Alvarado Building 110 Allende St Taft, TX 78390

El Condado de San Patricio tiene ocho (8) Centros donde puede elegir votar en:

Ballot by Mail / FPCA Information ▲
Reason for Voting by Mail:

65 years of age or older

Disability (as defined in Texas Election Code 82.002(a), having a sickness or physical condition that prevents the voter from appearing at the polling place on Election Day without a likelihood of needing personal assistance or of injuring the voters health.

Expected to give birth within three weeks before or after Election Day

Expected absence from the county. (You may apply for a ballot for one election and its resulting runoff, if your dates of absence from the County include both Elections.)

Confinement in Jail or involuntary Civil Commitment (You may only apply for a ballot for one election and any resulting runoffs)

Mail Application for ballot by shall be mail to:
San Patricio County Early Voting Clerk
Pamela Hill, Elections Administrator
410 W Market / P.O. Box 579
Sinton, Tx 78387

Or scan your completed and signed application for ballot by mail, email or fax it to:
sabsentee@sanpatriciocountytx.gov
361-364-6132

NOTE: If ABBM is faxed or emailed or if an FPCA is faxed; the original application MUST be received within 4 business days.

Click here for a printable application for ballot by mail. (Spanish)

You can now track your ballot process on Votetexas.gov and also make any corrections that need to be made on your Voter Registration.

For Military/Overseas Voters
Information Regarding Federal Postcard Applications (FPCA)

FPCA Application

Voting Systems ▲

Hart Intercivic Verity Hybrid Voting System


Introducing the Hart Intercivic's Verity Duo Voting System

*Touch screen
   *More Accessibility features
   *Verifiable paper trail

Verity Duo is a ballot marking device (BMD) that tabulates votes from human verifiable information, not a black box barcode. Duo delivers an intuitive touchscreen voting experience and the reassurance of a printed, paper vote record for end-to-end auditability.

Verity Scan ensures reliable audits of voter intent an enables fast recounts, with digital capture of full images of scanned ballots. Voting Data and audit logs are stored in redundant, physically separate locations. This means the scanner reads and records the same words the voter verified, ensuring 100% voter verifiability.

For more information click here.

VIDEO: How to vote using the Verity Duo (English)
VIDEO: How to vote using the Verity Duo (Spanish)
VIDEO CURBSIDE VOTING: How to vote using Verity DUO Go (English)

Secretary of State: 101 Voting Systems in Texas ▲

Texas Secretary of State

John B. Scott

For Immediate Distribution
September 23, 2022

Contact: Sam Taylor
smtaylor@sos.texas.gov
(512) 463-6116

SOS 101: Voting Systems in Texas

AUSTIN — Texas Secretary of State John Scott today released the second installment of 'SOS 101,' a series of videos educating voters about election administration in Texas ahead of the November 8, 2022 General Election. In the video, Secretary Scott provides an overview of voting systems in Texas, and the processes for certifying and deploying voting machines for use in Texas elections. Secretary Scott also visits with Hays County Elections Administrator Jennifer Doinoff during her office's public logic and accuracy testing of voting machines held earlier this week.

"Today, you'll be learning about voting systems in Texas, including why we use them, how they are certified, and how laws and regulations in the State of Texas help ensure that your vote is secure," Secretary Scott says in the video.

"Here are a couple of key facts that you, as a Texas voter, should know when it comes to the Security of our voting systems: (1) voting machines in Texas are never connected to the internet; (2) only the software that our office certifies can be loaded on voting equipment; and (3) All voting machines in Texas are tested for logic and accuracy three times - twice before the election, and once immediately after the election."

"Today, we are conducting our logic and accuracy test for our voting machines, which is required by law to be conducted publicly before every election," Elections Administrator Jennifer Doinoff explains in the video.

"This just the first part of the public testing, we will do this again before we tally votes on Election Night, and then again after we tabulate the votes on Election Night. So we'll make sure that the system hasn't changed and that everything is still working and functioning as it should."

To watch the full SOS 101 video on voting systems in Texas, click here or on the image below.

SOS 101: Voting Systems in Texascovers the following key topics:

1. Certification of Voting Systems

All voting systems must be certified by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), created by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in 2002.
The Texas Election Code requires all voting systems to be approved by the Secretary of State before they may be used in any Texas election.
Currently, only two voting system vendors arecertifiedby the Texas SOS:

Hart Intercivic -Austin, TX
Election Systems & Software (ES&S) - Omaha, NE

View a list of voting systems that may be used in Texas elections.

2. Key Facts on Security of Voting Machines

Voting machines in Texas are not connected to the internet.In order to be certified in Texas, the machines cannot even have the capability of connecting to the internet. Electronic pollbooks certified by the Texas SOS are connected to the internet, but they are never connected to any device that casts or tabulates votes.
Only software certified by the Texas SOS can be loaded on voting equipment.As an added security measure, Texas law requires software to go through a hash validation process to verify that the source code of any voting software was not altered in any way.
All voting machines are required to be tested for logic and accuracy three times - twice before each election, and once immediately after.

3. Public Logic & Accuracy Testing

Texas Election Code Sec. 129.023

The first test must be held publicly more than 48 hours before voting begins, and public notice of the test must be posted at least 48 hours in advance.
The county testing board - which includes representatives of political parties and members of the public - must agree on a test deck of ballots for which the results are already verified through a hand count.
The ballots included in the test deck must include votes for each candidate and proposition on the ballot, overvotes and undervotes, write-in votes and provisional votes.
The testing board votes the ballots on the electronic voting machines, recreating the choices from the original test deck.
The voted ballots are then tabulated, and the testing board meets to verify the results from the hand count and machine count are identical.
Voting machines can only be deployed in a Texas election after the test shows 100% accuracy.

4. Chain of Custody and Reconciliation Procedures

Poll workers must maintain a detailed chain of custody log of each voting system.
Before polls open for Early Voting (October 24th this year) poll workers must confirm there are zero votes cast on each machine and print a tape verifying zero votes cast.
Once all votes are counted on Election Night, each county must complete and publicly post a Preliminary Election Reconciliation for Unofficial Totals (PDF) that shows: how many ballots were cast, how many people signed in at the polling place, how many mail-in ballots are accepted or pending.

Mail ballots arriving from military members overseas may be received up to the 6th day after Election Day this year (November 14th), which is the same deadline for voters casting mail-in ballots to correct a defect such as a missing ID number or signature.

Within 72 hours of the polls closing on Election Day (November 8th this year), each election office must conduct a partial manual count to ensure the votes were tabulated accurately, using votes from 1% of precincts or 3 precincts, whichever is greater.
Once the county has completed its official canvass of votes, county election officials must complete and publicly post their final Election Reconciliation for Official Totals (PDF),which includes the number of:

Early Voting check-ins and counted ballots
Election Day check-ins and counted ballots
Voters who cast a ballot by mail, and how many were accepted and rejected
Provisional ballots submitted, counted and rejected
Mail ballots not returned or surrendered

To read more about security procedures regarding Texas election systems, read our Election Security Best Practices Guide for county officials (PDF).

To learn more about voting systems in Texas, visit www.votetexas.gov/voting/voting-systems

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Photo ID Law ▲
REQUIRED IDENTIFICATION FOR VOTING IN PERSON

On August 10, 2016, a federal district court entered an order changing the voter identification requirements for all elections held in Texas after August 10, 2016 until further notice. As a result, voters who have obtained an acceptable form of photo identification for voting listed below are still required to present it in order to vote in person in all Texas elections. The acceptable form of photo identification may be expired up to four years. Voters who have not been able to obtain one of the forms of acceptable photo identification listed below, and have a reasonable impediment or difficulty to obtaining such identification, may present a supporting form of identification and execute a Reasonable Impediment Declaration, noting the voter’s reasonable impediment to obtaining an acceptable form of photo identification, and stating that the voter is the same person on the presented supporting form of identification.

This requirement is effective immediately.

Here is a list of the acceptable forms of photo ID:

Texas driver license issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)

Texas Election Identification Certificate issued by DPS

Texas personal identification card issued by DPS

Texas license to carry a handgun issued by DPS

United States military identification card containing the person’s photograph

United States citizenship certificate containing the person’s photograph

United States passport

With the exception of the U.S. citizenship certificate, the identification must be current or have expired no more than 4 years before being presented for voter qualification at the polling place.

Here is a list of the supporting forms of ID that can be presented if the voter cannot obtain, and has a reasonable impediment or difficulty to obtaining one of the forms of acceptable photo ID:

Valid voter registration certificate

Certified birth certificate (must be an original)

Copy of or original current utility bill

Copy of or original bank statement

Copy of or original government check

Copy of or original paycheck

Copy of or original government document with your name and an address (original required if it contains a photograph)

After presenting a supporting form of ID, the voter must execute a Reasonable Impediment Declaration.
For more information, contact the Elections Department at 361-364-6121.

IDENTIFICACIÓN REQUERIDA PARA VOTAD EN PERSONA

Comunicado de Prensa:Electores que no poseen y no pueden obtener razonablemente una de las siete formas de identificación aprobadas con fotografía tienen opciones adicionales en las casillas

El 10 de agosto del 2016, una corte federal de distrito emitió una orden en la cual cambio los requisitos de la identificación para votar en las elecciones que se lleven a cabo en Texas a partir del 10 de agosto del 2016, y hasta nuevo aviso. Como resultado, electores que poseen una de las formas de identificación aprobadas con fotografía para votar listadas a continuación aun necesitan presentar dicha identificación para votar en persona en todas las elecciones que se llevaran a cabo en Texas. La forma de identificación aprobada con fotografía no debe haber vencido más de cuatro años antes de ser presentada. Electores que no poseen una de las formas de identificación aprobadas con fotografía y que no pueden obtener una de las formas de identificación aprobadas con fotografía listadas a continuación, debido a un impedimento razonable, pueden presentar una forma de identificación adicional y llenar una Declaración de Impedimento Razonable, explicando el impedimento razonable para obtener una de las formas de identificación aprobadas con fotografía, y afirmar que la forma de identificación adicional le pertenece a la persona que está ejerciendo el voto.

Este requisito entro en vigor inmediatamente.

La lista de las formas de identificación aprobadas con fotografía es la siguiente:

Licencia de conducir de Texas expedida por el Departamento de Seguridad Pública (DPS, según sus siglas en inglés)

Certificado de Identificación Electoral de Texas expedido por el DPS

Tarjeta de identificación personal de Texas expedida por el DPS

Licencia para portar armas de fuego de Texas expedida por el DPS

Cedula de identificación militar de los Estados Unidos con fotografía

Certificado de ciudadanía de los Estados Unidos con fotografía

Pasaporte de los Estados Unidos

Con la excepción del certificado de ciudadanía estadounidense, la identificación debe estar actualizada o no haber vencido más de 4 años antes de ser presentada en la casilla electoral para poder ejercer su voto.

La siguiente es la lista de las formas de identificaciones adicionales que puede presentar si el elector no posee una de las formas de identificación aprobadas con fotografía y no puede obtener una debido a un impedimento razonable:

Certificado de registro electoral valido

Acta de nacimiento certificada (original)

Factura reciente de servicios públicos (original o copia)

Estado de cuenta bancaria (original o copia)

Cheque del gobierno (original o copia)

Cheque de pago (original o copia)

Documento del gobierno con su nombre y una dirección (original o copia) (se requiere documento original si contiene una fotografía).

Después de presentar una forma de identificación adicional, el elector debe llenar una Declaración de Impedimento Razonable.

Para obtener más información, póngase en contacto con el Departamento de elecciones en 361-364-6121.

Voter Registration Application / Solicitud de registro de votantes ▲
In order to vote, you must be registered. Applications must be submitted at least 30 days before the election date.

In Texas, citizens do not register by political party, but simply register in their county of current residence.

You are eligible to register to vote if:

You are a United States citizen;

You are a resident of the county where you submit the application;

You are at least 17 years and 10 months of age;

You are not a convicted felon (unless you have completed your sentence including any incarceration, probation, or parole); and

You have not been declared by a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be either totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote.

To receive a Voter Registration Application, you may:

Download and print Texas Voter Registration Application (pdf form).

Call the Elections Department at (361) 364-6121

Pick up an application at one of several locations throughout the county, including Post Offices and Libraries.

Mail your completed applications to:

San Patricio County Elections
PO Box 579
Sinton, TX 78387

or, hand deliver it to the Elections Department, located at

410 W Market St
Sinton, Texas 78387

You may fax your application to 361-364-6132 but it must be followed by the hard copy within four business days. (Please include "Application was faxed" at the top of the application.)

Note to those who renew their driver's license on the Texas Department of Public Safety website, DPS provides a link to update your voter registration application. Be aware you must complete the form, PRINT and mail it in.

Useful Resources / Recursos útiles ▲