How do I vote by mail or early in Arizona in 2026?

Register by Monday October 5, 2026, 29 days before Election Day, online or in person, or by mail postmarked that day. Arizona offers four ways to register: online through AZMVDNow if you have an Arizona driver license or non-operating ID card, by mail to the county recorder, in person at the county recorder's office, or through the Address Confidentiality Program for eligible participants.

Early voting runs from Wednesday October 7, 2026 until 7 p.m. on Friday October 30, 2026. County recorders must offer in-person early voting at their offices and may establish additional early voting locations. Voters must present valid ID and may not remove ballots from the location.

Qualified voters who face unforeseen circumstances between 5 p.m. the Friday before and 5 p.m. the Monday before election day may request emergency voting at a center designated by their county board of supervisors.

Ballot by mail requests must be received by 5 p.m. on Friday October 23, 2026, 11 days before Election Day. Voters on Arizona's Active Early Voting List are automatically mailed a ballot for every election in which they are eligible. There is no deadline to join the list, but a voter must be on it at least 11 days before an election to be sent a ballot for that election. Early ballots come with a postage-paid return envelope.

Mail ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day. A voted early ballot must be received by the county recorder or other officer in charge of elections, or deposited at any polling place in the county, no later than 7 p.m. on election day. A postmark by election day is not sufficient. Arizona is an in-hand state, not a postmark state.

Arizona ballot drop boxes must be in a secure location such as inside or in front of a government building, be approved by the county board of supervisors, and have an opening slot too small for deposited ballots to be removed. Boxes remain unavailable until 27 days before election day and must be locked and made unavailable after the polls close on election day.

An Arizona early ballot will not be counted without the voter signature on the affidavit envelope. The affidavit is signed under penalty of perjury and states that the voter is a registered voter in the named county and has not voted and will not vote in the election in any other county or state, and warns that knowingly voting more than once is a class 5 felony.

Counties must provide an early-ballot tracking system, accessible on the county website, showing whether a voter's early ballot has been received and whether it has been verified and sent to be tabulated or has been rejected.

A voter who returns an early ballot without a signature on the affidavit envelope may cure the missing signature until 7 p.m. on election day. When an early-ballot affidavit signature is inconsistent with the voter's registration record, the county recorder may allow the voter to correct the signature no later than the fifth business day after a primary, general or special election that includes a federal office, or the third business day after any other election. The county recorder must make reasonable efforts to contact the voter.