Emergency voting sites in Pima County open Saturday, Monday

Time is running out to cast a vote in the Nov. 5 presidential election.

Pima County’s early voting sites are open throughout the community until 7 p.m. Friday.

Those sites will be rebranded as emergency voting sites on Saturday and Monday and are scheduled to be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The sites include:

• Pima County Recorder’s Office at 240 N. Stone Ave.
• Pima County Recorder’s Office at 6550 S. Country Club Rd.
• Fellowship Bible Church, 6700 E. Broadway
• Santa Cruz Room on the third floor of the UA Student Union
• Oro Valley Library, 1305 W. Naranja Dr.
• La Villita Community Center, 71 W. Sahuarita Rd.
• Woods Memorial Library, 3455 N. 1st Ave.
• Eckstrom-Columbus Library, 4350 E. 22nd St.
• Dusenberry-River Library, 5605 E. River Rd., suite 105
• W. Anne Gibson-Esmond Station Library, 10931 E. May Ann Cleveland Way
• Kirk Bear Canyon Library, 8959 E. Tanque Verde Rd.
• Pima County Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation Building, 3500 W. River Rd.
• Miller Golf Links Library, 9640 E. Golf Links Rd.
• Valencia Library, 202 W. Valencia Rd.
• Pascua Yaqui Wellness Center, 5305 W. Calle Torim
• Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Library, 7800 N. Schisler Dr.
• TOKA Community Building, 51 Baboquivari Dr. in Sells
• Salazar-Ajo Library, 15 W. Plaza, suite 179, in Ajo

Ballots must be in the custody of the Pima County Recorder’s Office by 7 p.m. on Nov. 5 or they will be disqualified. 

Election officials advise voters that if they drop their ballots into the mail now, there’s no guarantee the U.S. Postal Service will deliver them to the county by Election Day. Instead, voters are encouraged to drop off completed vote-by-mail ballots at the above locations or at any of the 126 Election Day voting centers that Pima County plans to open for Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Voters can cast ballots or drop off completed ballots as late as 5 p.m. on Monday at the Downtown and Country Club Road branches of the Pima County Recorder’s Office.

Voters can also drop off early ballots they have received through the mail at the Recorder’s East Side office, 6920 E. Broadway., between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Friday and Monday. That location is closed for lunch from noon to 1 p.m.

Find more details on the early voting sites here.

Voters should be prepared for a long ballot that will include the presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, the contest for a U.S. Senate seat between Rep. Ruben Gallego and former Phoenix newscaster Kari Lake and campaigns for U.S. Congress, the Arizona Legislature, the Pima County Board of Supervisors and many others.

Voters will decide 13 statewide propositions and local measures in suburban communities and school districts.

To accommodate the multitude of choices, election officials had to spread them over four pages on a two-card ballot, with contests for election officials on the front page of the first card and the propositions on the back page of the first card and both the front and back pages of the second card.

Pima County Elections Director Constance Hargrove has urged voters to return both cards because if they only return one card, that is all that will be counted.

Voters who cast ballots at early vote locations or at vote centers on Election Day should bring photo ID or two pieces of non-photo ID that establishes their address, such as utility statements, valid Arizona vehicle registration, voter registration card  or a bank statement. Find a complete list at the Arizona Secretary of State website.

Of the nearly 525,000 early ballots requested in Pima County as of Oct. 30, more than 306,000 ballots had already been returned as of Oct. 30, according to ballot tracking by the political strategy firm Uplift Campaigns.

That total includes more than 137,600 ballots from Democrats, more than 94,000 ballots from Republicans and more than 74,300 ballots from voters not registered with either major party.

Visit Pima.Vote for more details about voting in Pima County.