Fairfax County voters will soon have more options for casting their ballot ahead of the Nov. 5 general election.
The county is set to open 13 more in-person early voting sites tomorrow (Thursday), bringing the total number of sites up to 16. The Fairfax County, Mount Vernon and North County government centers have been available since Sept. 20.
The new locations include libraries, additional district governmental centers and one community center.
- Burke Centre Library (5935 Freds Oak Road)
- Centreville Regional Library (14200 St. Germain Drive)
- Franconia Governmental Center (6121 Franconia Road)
- Great Falls Library (9830 Georgetown Pike)
- Herndon Fortnightly Library (768 Center Street)
- Lorton Community Center (9520 Richmond Highway)
- Mason Governmental Center (6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale)
- McLean Governmental Center (1437 Balls Hill Road)
- Jim Scott (Providence) Community Center (3001 Vaden Drive, Fairfax)
- Sully Governmental Center (4900 Stonecroft Blvd, Chantilly)
- Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library (7584 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church)
- West Springfield Governmental Center (6140 Rolling Road)
All locations will be open Monday through Friday from 1-7 p.m., Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Sunday, Oct. 27, from 1-5 p.m. Voters should bring a driver’s license, utility bill or another form of identification with them.
Absentee mail ballots can still be requested until Friday, Oct. 25 at 5 p.m. They must be returned by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the Office of Elections in the Fairfax County Governmental Center, at one of the ballot drop boxes that can be found at all early voting sites and Election Day polling places, or by mail postmarked no later than Nov. 5.
The deadline for registering to vote closed at 5 p.m. yesterday (Tuesday). Virginia now allows voters to register through Election Day, but any newcomers will now need to use a provisional ballot, which gets counted separately from a regular ballot.
Voter registration has become a particularly fraught topic this election cycle, with Virginia facing multiple lawsuits after removing thousands of voters who were flagged as non-citizens — possibly based on data and paperwork errors. The Fairfax County Electoral Board adopted a policy last month directing the general registrar to refer those individuals to local and state prosecutors for review.
In addition to determining whether Vice President Kamala Harris or former president Donald Trump should occupy the White House for the next four years, Fairfax County voters are weighing in on Senate and House of Representatives races, a Virginia Constitutional amendment and two bond proposals.
Town of Herndon residents are also voting for their next mayor and town council members.
More than 12% of Fairfax County voters, or 90,224 people, have cast a ballot in the general election so far, the county’s Office of Elections said in an update today. In-person early voting will conclude at 5 p.m. on Nov. 2.
