Who Can Vote by Mail in Kerr County

Texas doesn't do no-excuse mail voting. To get a ballot by mail you have to fit one of a handful of categories: you're 65 or older, you're sick or disabled, you'll be out of the county for the whole voting period, you're expecting to give birth near Election Day, or you're eligible while confined in jail. Age is the line most Kerr County voters use, since turning 65 simply opens up the option.

The wrinkle here is that Kerr County folds its voter registration into the Tax Assessor-Collector's office, run by Bob Reeves, the same counter where you renew your car registration. The elections side sits in Suite 124 of the courthouse at 700 Main Street in Kerrville, reachable at 830-792-2242. That's who fields a mail-ballot question.

The application itself has to be addressed to the Early Voting Clerk and arrive by the state deadline for that particular election, which moves around depending on whether it's a primary, a general, or a local race. Send it too late and it doesn't matter that you qualified, because the ballot won't reach you in time.