Information on local, state and federal candidates and ballot measures may be available here. To see a list of available races, visit the race index.

No drop boxes available. You can hand-deliver your ballot to the office of the county clerk. You can look up the address of your county clerk here.

Early voting dates depend on the type of election, ranging from 7-15 days before the election. Early voting will take place at the county clerk’s office. Some counties have other early voting locations around the county. Preferential Primary and General Elections: Early voting begins 15 days before the election and is available from 8am – 6pm Monday to Friday, and 10am-4pm on Saturday. Early voting ends at 5pm on the Monday before the election. Hours may vary at the non-county clerk office locations, contact your county clerk for more information. All other elections (runoff, school, etc.): Early voting begins 7 days before the election, and is available during normal business hours at your county clerk’s office. For more information check your state’s resource.

To be eligible to vote you must be:

• A U.S. citizen
• An Arkansas resident
• 18 before or on Election Day
• Not presently adjudged mentally incompetent by a court of competent jurisdiction
• Not convicted of a felony without your sentence having been discharged or pardoned

If you are registering to vote by mail, you must provide either your driver’s license number or the last four digits of your Social Security number on your voter registration application. If you do not have either of these you must check the box on the application noting you do not have either forms of ID. If you do not have a driver’s license number or Social Security number you should submit one of the below forms of ID with your mail-in application:

• A current and valid photo ID
• A copy of a current utility bill, bank statement, government check or paycheck that shows your name and address
• Another government document that shows your name and address

If you are unable to provide any form of ID with your registration, you will be asked to vote a Provisional Ballot when you vote for the first time.

You must show a photo ID in order to vote. The expiration date on the ID must not be more than 4 years before Election Day. Any photo ID is acceptable if it was issued by the United States, the State of Arkansas or an accredited post-secondary educational institution in Arkansas. If you are unable to verify your registration through a photo ID, you will be asked to vote a provisional ballot. Voters can call or text 844-338-8743 at any time to reach VoteRiders Voter ID Helpline

You are a Military or Overseas voter if you are in uniformed services, living overseas OR a spouse or dependent of a uniformed services voter. To get registered and vote, you can utilize Overseas Vote Foundation. If you have additional questions about elections and voting overseas you can use our state specific elections official directory or contact the Overseas Vote Foundation.

The polls will be open from 7:30 am to 7:30 pm.

You can confirm your voting location here.

Arkansas is an “open primary” state. You can choose the party’s ballot you wish to vote. This decision does not register you with that party and it is a private decision. In a primary election if a candidate does not with the majority of the votes (50%+1) there will be a primary runoff election scheduled for a few weeks after the primary election date. The runoff election will have the top two candidates with the most votes to ensure that one of them receives the majority of the voters. If you have any questions about your state’s primary election, please contact your local election officials.

There are several reason you may be asked to vote a provisional ballot, including:

• You name not on the registration list
• You are unable to provide acceptable photo ID (to verify your voter registration)
• You are not able to show acceptable ID for mail-in registrants when registering to vote
• The voter registration list shows you requested an absentee ballot or voted during early voting
• Your vote is challenged by a registered poll watcher (you must be informed of the challenge and the challenger must complete a Challenged Ballot Form)

After you vote your provisional ballot, the poll worker will give you written instructions on how to determine whether the provisional vote was counted, and if not, why it was not counted. Provisional ballots are counted between 2-15 days after the election.

If you are at the polling site and find that you are unable to stand in line for extended period of time due to physical, sensory or other disabilities, you can inform an election official and they will put you at the head of the line of any voters. If you are unable to mark your ballot, you may be assisted by two election officials or by any person selected by you, who will mark the ballot in accordance with your voting wishes. If you are unable to read the ballot, the election official have the entire ballot read to you, unless you instruct otherwise. The election official shall then assist you without comment or interpretation in marking the ballot. If you designate a person to assist, the election official shall allow that person to assist you, and the person designated shall read the entire ballot to you, unless you instruct otherwise, and then assist you without comment or interpretation in marking the ballot. For more information, you can utilize the American Association of People With Disabilities (AAPD) resource.

Employer shall schedule sufficient time on election days so that employees may vote. This time varies by location.

To verify your voter registration status

The voting systems used in Arkansas are optical scan and DRE. Optical Scan: With this system, you will receive a card or sheet of paper, which you take over to a private table or booth. The card has the names of the various candidates and ballot measures printed on it. With a pen or pencil you fill in a little box or circle or the space between two arrows. When you are finished filling out all the cards, you may bring the cards over to a ballot box, where poll workers will show you how to put the cards in the box. Or in some places, you may feed the completed cards or papers into a computer device that checks your card or paper right there at the polling place to make sure you have voted the way you want to and counts the votes. Direct Recording Electronic (DRE): This is the newest kind of system in use in the U.S. All the information about who and what you are voting for is on an electronic screen like a TV or computer screen. There are many variations of DREs because lots of companies are inventing new ones, and many cities, counties and states are trying them out. Usually, after you have signed in, the poll workers will give you a card that you slide into a device to start your voting session. Some of these devices will show all of the candidates and ballot choices on one big screen. Often, with these big screen devices you push a button next to the name of the candidate you want to vote for (or yes or no on a ballot measure). On other DREs, the screen is set up to show pages. On each screen or page, there will probably be one thing to vote on. For example, on one screen or page, you might vote for president. Then you might move to the next page to vote for senator. Often these small-screen devices have a touch screen, where you touch the screen next to the name of the person you want to vote for. Other devices have a key pad. And some have a keyboard, so you can write in the name of someone you want to vote for. You let the system know you are finished voting by pushing a button, touching the screen or entering something on a keypad. iVotronic Touch Screen: With system the voter uses a touch screen to place their votes. This system prevents voters from casting two votes in a single race and alerts the voter of races with no votes cast. It includes a paper receipt that remains in the machine but allows voters to see their individual votes to verify the machine records them correctly. You can learn more about voting systems by checking out the Elections Assistance Commission’s (EAC) resource.