Lee County's deadline to request a mail ballot is 5 p.m. Thursday, October 22, and Lehigh Acres has two early voting sites open daily through October 31
In Lee County, the deadline to ask the Supervisor of Elections to mail you a ballot for the November 3, 2026 general election is 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 22. Early voting runs 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Saturday, October 31, at 12 sites, including Veteran's Park Recreation Center and East County Regional Library in Lehigh Acres.
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The Lee County Supervisor of Elections must receive requests for a mailed ballot by 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 22, for the November 3, 2026 general election, according to the supervisor's election deadlines page. For voters in Lehigh Acres, two of the county's 12 early voting sites are in the community, and all 12 are open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day through Saturday, October 31.
Early voting in Lee began on Monday, October 19, per the supervisor's early voting dates and locations list. On Election Day, polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Early voting sites in Lehigh Acres
- Veteran's Park Recreation Center, 55 Homestead Road South, Lehigh Acres
- East County Regional Library, 881 Gunnery Road North, Lehigh Acres
Elsewhere in east and south Lee, the list includes the Bonita Springs Elections Office at 25987 South Tamiami Trail, Suite 105, the Estero Recreation Center at 9200 Corkscrew Palms Boulevard, and the North Fort Myers Recreation Center at 2000 North Recreation Parkway. The full list of 12, with a map, is on the supervisor's site.
When a Lee County mail ballot has to be back
A completed mail ballot must reach the supervisor before 7 p.m. on November 3, and the county says one received after that cannot be counted. The county had suggested that voters returning ballots by mail send them no later than Tuesday, October 20, a date that has now passed.
Ballots can be handed in instead. During early voting, each early voting site has a secure ballot intake station. Mail ballots are also accepted at any Supervisor of Elections office during business hours, Monday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Lehigh Acres branch office, at 600 Homestead Road South, Suite 9, is one of five offices that will take mail ballots until 7 p.m. on Election Day.
What is on the Lee County ballot
The supervisor lists federal, state, county and special district offices, state constitutional amendments, and council races in Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, Fort Myers and Fort Myers Beach. The property tax measure on that ballot, Amendment 3, was explained for Lee in this site's tax base estimate brief.
The supervisor's site showed 506,255 active registered voters in Lee County on October 22. More Lee County news is on the county page.
