Where to Vote on Election Day in Harris County: Vote Centers Open 7 to 7 on Tuesday, November 3

HOUSTON - Harris County voters who did not cast a ballot during early voting have exactly one day left: Tuesday, November 3, when Election Day Vote Centers across the county open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. There is no voting on Saturday, Sunday or Monday - early voting ended Friday, October 30 - so the weekend is for planning, not polling places.

Harris County runs Election Day on a countywide Vote Center model, the county's Elections page confirms: a registered Harris County voter is not restricted to one assigned location and may choose any available Vote Center in the county. The county's official Election Day Vote Centers list carries the same 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. hours, and voters are urged to confirm a center's availability close to Tuesday, because locations can be added or updated as preparations finish. Sample ballots are address-specific - the county's What's on My Ballot search shows the contests a voter will actually see - and a printed sample ballot or handwritten notes may be brought into the booth; phones may not be used within 100 feet of the voting area.

Voters should bring an acceptable photo ID: the county lists seven primary forms, including a Texas driver license, a Texas personal identification card and a U.S. passport. A voter aged 18 to 69 may use an approved ID expired no more than four years earlier; voters 70 and older may use an otherwise acceptable expired ID regardless of how long it has been expired. The ballot itself is cast in two steps on the county's equipment - selections are made on the machine, the paper ballot is printed, and the vote is cast only when that printed ballot is fed into the scanner and the flag confirmation appears. Tuesday's ballot is headed by the U.S. Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico, along with statewide, congressional, county and local contests.