Breckenridge Texan

There are six weeks left for Texas citizens to register to vote before the Nov. 5 General Election. The deadline to register to vote is Oct. 7.

To register to vote, you can obtain a voter registration application from the Stephens County Tax Assessor/Elections office at the courthouse, 200 W. Walker St. You can also fill out a voter registration application online or request a postage-paid application be mailed to you. Note: If you fill out a voter registration application online using that link, you must print the completed application and send or take it to the county voter registrar’s office.

If you’re not sure if you’re currently registered to vote, click here to check online.  You will need to know one of the following: 1. your Voter Unique Identifier (VUID), which appears on your voter registration certificate; 2. your Texas driver’s license number, if you provided it when you applied for voter registration; or 3. your first and last name. Or, you can call the voter registrar’s office at 254-522-9498. Jared McLane is the Stephens County Elections Administrator.

You are eligible to register to vote if:

• You are a United States citizen;
• You are a resident of the county where you submit the application;
• You are at least 17 years and 10 months old on the date your voter registration application is submitted, and you are 18 years of age on Election Day.
• You are not a convicted felon (you may be eligible to vote if you have completed your sentence, probation, and parole); and
• You have not been declared by a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be either totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote.

The election will include the U.S. Presidency, as well as several other federal and state offices. Locally, there are several uncontested races, but the two county commissioner positions each have one candidate who was put on the ballot via the March Republican Primary Election and one write-in candidate. Houston Satterwhite is running as a write-in candidate for the Precinct 3 County Commissioner position against incumbent Will Warren, who ran unopposed in the Republican Primary. Stephens County resident Chad Jones is running as a write-in candidate for the Precinct 1 County Commissioner position against incumbent David Fambro, who ran unopposed in the Republican Primary.