Information for Voters

Election Calendar - May 2025

2/8 - 3/20        Filing period for candidates
3/20                 Last day to file local ballot measures
4/29                  Last day to register to vote
4/30-5/6           Ballots mailed out
5/20                 ELECTION DAY
5/20, 8pm        Deadline to drop ballots in designated boxes
5/20                 Last day for valid postmark of mailed ballots
5/27                 Last day to receive valid postmarked ballots by mail

Register to vote

  • If you're at least 16 years old, you can register to vote. You'll start receiving your ballot by mail just before the first election after your 18th birthday.

  • Register online

  •  Register by mail: Find voter registration cards at our county elections office, U.S. post offices, public libraries, and DMV offices.

Check or update your voter registration

  • You need to update your voter registration when you move, change your name or mailing address, or want to select or change your party affiliation. Name changes should be done using the paper voter registration form so they have record of your new signature.

Get your ballot in

If you won’t be home to vote

Problems with your ballot (lost, damaged, not received, whatever)

Turning in your ballot

Drop box:
Drop off your ballot by 8pm on election day at one of these three official drop boxes in HR County. All are outside drops, available 24/7 (24 hrs/day, 7 days/week).
In Hood River: County Admin Building, 601 State Street
In Cascade Locks: City Hall, 140 Wa Na Pa Street
In Parkdale: Elementary School, 4880 Van Nuys Drive

Mail:
Use the no-postage-required envelope sent with your ballot. To be counted, your ballot must be postmarked by 8 p.m. on election day.
You can take it to the desk in the HR Post Office on election day for mailing and ask them to postmark it there.
If you mail your ballot in a mailbox, it has to go to Portland to be postmarked, so you really need to mail it early in the day, on the day before election day!)

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