Voting by Mail in Medina County, and Why You Re-Apply Every Year

Medina County voters who qualify by age (65 or older) or by disability can ask for their ballots by mail through the elections office, tucked into the Courthouse Annex at 1300 Avenue M, Room 108, in Hondo. The piece people miss: the annual Application for Ballot by Mail expires on December 31 of the year you send it in. File it in spring, and it's already dead by the next January, so you re-apply for the new year to keep the ballots coming.

Voters away from the county on election day, or confined in jail, use a single-election application instead. Military members and Texans living overseas have their own route, the Federal Post Card Application, handled through the federal voting assistance program, with forms posted in English and Spanish.

Elections Administrator Jeanie L. Longoria runs that office, and the front desk at (830) 741-6009 is the place to settle the questions that decide whether your ballot counts: this election's deadlines, where to mail it, and which application your situation calls for.