What you need to know before you vote.

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Early voting runs Monday, October 19 through Friday, October 30. The last day to register, or to update your address, is Monday, October 5.

Texas does not offer online voter registration for new voters. You fill out a paper application, sign it, and mail or deliver it to the Travis County Voter Registrar. You can print the application from votetexas.gov, or pick one up at a library, a post office, or the county elections office. A mailed application has to be postmarked by October 5.

If you are already registered in Texas and you have moved or changed your name, you may be able to update your record online through Texas.gov instead of filing a new paper application.

Use the "Am I Registered?" lookup at votetexas.gov. It also shows which districts you vote in, so it is the quickest way to confirm you are inside Del Valle ISD and to find which single-member district you live in. If your record looks wrong, contact the Travis County Elections Division.

Travis County uses vote centers, which means any registered Travis County voter can use any polling location in the county, both during early voting and on Election Day. You are not assigned to one precinct site.

The county publishes the location list about a month before the election, so the November 3 sites are not out yet. Use the votetravis.gov lookup, and we will post the Del Valle area locations on the Where to vote section of our home page as soon as the county releases them.

One of seven forms of photo ID:

• Texas driver license
• Texas election identification certificate
• Texas personal identification card
• Texas handgun license
• U.S. military identification card
• U.S. citizenship certificate
• U.S. passport

If you are 18 to 69, the ID can be expired by up to four years. If you are 70 or older, it can be expired for any length of time as long as it is otherwise valid.

If you cannot reasonably obtain one of those, you can sign a Reasonable Impediment Declaration at the polls and show a supporting document instead: your voter registration certificate, a utility bill, a bank statement, a government check, a paycheck, or a birth certificate.

Only if you meet one of the state's conditions. In Texas you can request a mail ballot if you:

• are 65 or older on Election Day
• are sick or disabled
• will be out of the county for the entire voting period
• expect to give birth within three weeks of Election Day
• are confined in jail but otherwise eligible to vote

Your application has to be received by the county, not just postmarked, by Friday, October 23. Send it early.

No. You can vote in some races and skip others, and leaving a race blank does not invalidate the rest of your ballot.

It is worth filling out the whole thing, though. School board races and local propositions are decided by a fraction of the votes cast at the top of the ballot, so a vote down-ballot carries more weight than most people expect.

Every Del Valle ISD voter will see Proposition A. If you live in single-member district 3, 5, 7, 8, or 9, you will also see a school board race. The district's other four seats are not up until 2028.

Your ballot will also carry the county, state, and federal races on the November 2026 general election ballot.

A voter-approval tax rate election, usually shortened to VATRE. Texas law limits how far a school district can raise the maintenance and operations part of its tax rate without asking voters. When a school board adopts a rate above that limit, the question goes on the ballot automatically. That is what Proposition A is: the Del Valle ISD board adopted a rate that requires voter approval, so voters decide whether it takes effect.

No, and the difference matters. A bond pays for buildings and is repaid through the interest and sinking (I&S) part of the tax rate. A VATRE affects the maintenance and operations (M&O) part, which covers day-to-day costs: salaries, classroom instruction, and student services.

Money raised under Proposition A cannot be spent on construction, and the ballot language is different from a bond's.

According to Del Valle ISD, it would generate roughly $13.9 million a year. The district's stated plan is:

• a 5% raise for hourly employees and 3% for other employees, replacing one-time retention payments with ongoing pay
• staffing and programs for the district's second high school, set to open in 2028
• classroom instruction and student services across the district

The district estimates about $9.14 a year, roughly 76 cents a month, on a home at the district average value of about $314,000. Your own amount depends on your appraised value and exemptions.

Homeowners who are 65 or older, or who have a disability homestead exemption, would not see an increase, because school taxes on those homesteads are already subject to a ceiling. The district says it has one of the lowest school tax rates in the Austin area.

The district's explanation is that operating costs have risen close to 25% with inflation while the state's basic allotment per student has gone up less than 1%. It adopted a $142 million budget for 2026-27 with about $3 million less in combined state and local revenue than the year before.

Five of the nine seats are on the ballot. The candidates, listed alphabetically rather than in ballot order, are in the board seats section above. Which race appears on your ballot depends on where you live, because Del Valle ISD trustees are elected from single-member districts.

Not yet. We are meeting with candidates now and will announce our positions on the board races, and on Proposition A, before early voting begins on October 19.

Until then, this page is here to help you find accurate information about the election, whatever you decide.