DC · How to vote
Voting in District of Columbia.
Three ways to vote, three deadlines. ID rules and vote-by-mail policy below — verify the specifics with the District of Columbia Secretary of State at the link.
1Official source of record
DC Board of Elections
2District map · TIGER/Line 2025 boundaries
Every district in District of Columbia, on one map
Click any congressional, state senate, or state house polygon for the sitting member and a brief description. Toggle layers below the map to see overlapping legislative geography. Source polygons: US Census TIGER/Line 2025.
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true polygons · 2025 vintage · click a district for details1US Census TIGER/Line 20252026-05-03
3At-a-glance rules
No ID requiredUniversal vote-by-mailOnline voter registrationSame-day registrationAutomatic voter registration
VOTER ID REQUIREMENTS
DC does not require ID to vote. First-time voters who registered by mail may need to show ID.
VOTE BY MAIL
Any registered voter may request a mail ballot. DC also offers early voting.
3NCSL voter ID requirements2026-04-153NCSL absentee + VBM rules2026-04-15
Local elections in District of Columbia are administered by your County Clerk / Election Office. For ballot or registration help, contact your county clerk or election office.
Official action — DC
The state’s own tools, with links to verify.
Each card below routes to the official District of Columbia system. Where the state delegates to county Supervisors of Elections, the card says so honestly.
Statewide→
Check my registration
DCBOE-run. Name + DOB + last-4 SSN.
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Register / update online
DC ID or last-4 SSN. Same-day reg available during early vote and election day. Non-citizens may register for DC local elections only.
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Find my polling place
Returned alongside registration. Early vote centers separately at earlyvoting.dcboe.org.
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Preview my ballot
Per-cycle PDFs. Not a per-voter address lookup. (Old `/voters/casting-your-vote/sample-ballots` slug retired in 2026 DCBOE site rebuild; sample ballots now live under per-cycle PDFs linked from the casting-your-vote landing page.)
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Request a mail ballot
All active voters auto-mailed since 2020. Request form is for replacement / alternate address.
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Track my mail ballot
BallotTrax-powered. SMS / email / voice opt-in. (Old dcboe.org/voters/absentee-voting/track-absentee-ballot hub page 404'd in 2026 DCBOE site rebuild; canonical tracker is the DC-namespaced ballottrax.net subdomain.)
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See who's on the ballot
DCBOE per-cycle candidate page. Mayor, Council (7 seats up Nov 2026), AG. (Old `/candidates/2026` per-cycle path retired; index lives at /candidates/.)
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Statewide ballot measures
DC has initiative + referendum process. Initiative 83 implementation continues. No Nov 2026 statewide initiatives qualified beyond I-83 RCV rollout. (Old `/Voters/Initiatives,-Referenda,-Recall/General-Information` slug retired in 2026 DCBOE site rebuild; initiative info now lives under /ballot-measures/.)
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Live + past results
DCBOE election-night reporting.
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Election calendar
Primary 2026-06-16 (FIRST RCV cycle in DC, 5 rankings), general 2026-11-03.
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