Elections and Voting — Brevard County, Florida

Brevard County residents register online with a Florida driver license, state ID or the last four digits of a Social Security number, or on a paper form returned to a Supervisor of Elections office (Supervisor of Elections, Register to Vote).

Florida law sets who may register: a person at least 18 years old, a United States citizen, and a legal resident of both Florida and the county where the person registers, so a new arrival in Palm Bay or Titusville registers in Brevard County once residency is established (Section 97.041, Florida Statutes). Teenagers may preregister on or after their 16th birthday and vote in any election held on or after their 18th birthday. The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections also offers the same form as a fillable PDF that can be printed, signed and returned to any of the four administrative offices (Register to Vote).

Registration has a hard cutoff before every election. Under section 97.055, the books close on the 29th day before each election and stay closed until after it (Section 97.055, Florida Statutes). For the November 3, 2026 general election that date was Monday, October 5, 2026, as posted by the Supervisor of Elections in Viera. The same online system handles both new registrations and updates to an existing Brevard County record.

Those counts come from the running tally on the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections home page (Supervisor of Elections). Republicans are the largest group at 208,106 of 447,227 active voters, and voters registered with no party, at 107,225, nearly match the Democratic total of 112,619.

The Supervisor of Elections serves voters from four offices, in Titusville, Viera, Melbourne and Palm Bay, open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday except observed holidays (Supervisor of Elections, Contact Information).

The main phone line is 321-290-VOTE (8683), with a toll-free line at 1-800-579-4780 and a Spanish toll-free line at 1-833-803-0613, and mail goes to PO Box 410819, Melbourne, FL 32941-0819 (Contact Information). In South Brevard, the two offices are the Palm Bay office on Cogan Drive SE and the Melbourne office on Sarno Road, and each lobby holds a Secure Ballot Intake Station for returning mail ballots (Mail Ballot Information).

Any Brevard County voter may request a mail ballot online, by phone at 321-633-2127, by fax, by email or with form DS-DE 160 mailed to the Supervisor of Elections (Supervisor of Elections, Mail Ballot Information).

A request needs the voter's full name, date of birth, Brevard County residential address, and a Florida driver license or ID card number or the last four digits of the Social Security number, plus the elections the voter wants ballots for (Mail Ballot Information). Only the voter, or a member of the voter's immediate family or legal guardian, may make the request. The Florida Legislature opened no-excuse voting by mail to all voters in 2002 and replaced the word absentee with vote by mail in 2016, according to the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections.

Requests do not last forever. Section 101.62 makes one request good for all elections through the end of the calendar year of the next regularly scheduled general election (Section 101.62, Florida Statutes), and the Supervisor of Elections home page notes that prior mail ballot requests expired as of January 1, 2025 (Supervisor of Elections). A voter in Melbourne or Palm Bay whose request dated from before 2025 therefore needed a new request for 2026.

Voted ballots go back in the postage-paid envelope by mail, or into a Secure Ballot Intake Station at an early voting site or at any of the four Brevard offices during hours of operation, and they must reach the Supervisor of Elections by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day to count (Supervisor of Elections, returning a mail ballot). A voter who forgets to sign the certificate envelope can file affidavit form DS-DE 139 no later than 5:00 p.m. on the second day after Election Day (Mail Ballot Information).

A voter who changes plans can still vote in person. The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections says the voter should bring the unvoted mail ballot to the early voting site or polling place and hand it to an election official to receive a regular ballot; without it, a provisional ballot may be required if officials cannot confirm the mail ballot was not returned (Mail Ballot Information).

Early voting lets any registered Brevard County voter cast a ballot at any early voting site in the county, regardless of home address, during a set window before each election (Supervisor of Elections, Early Voting).

State law sets the frame. Section 101.657 requires early voting to begin on the 10th day before an election with state or federal races and end on the 3rd day before it, for at least 8 and no more than 12 hours a day at each site, and lets the supervisor add the 15th through 11th days and the 2nd day before the election (Section 101.657, Florida Statutes). Sites may be the main or a branch office of the Supervisor of Elections, or a designated city hall, permanent public library, fairground, civic center, courthouse, county commission building, stadium, convention center, or government-owned senior or community center, placed so voters across the county have an equal opportunity to cast a ballot.

For the November 3, 2026 general election, the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections set early voting for Monday, October 19 to Saturday, October 31, 2026, with sites open 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday (Early Voting). October 19 is 15 days before November 3, so the county is using the earliest optional start the statute allows. Secure Ballot Intake Stations are open at every Brevard early voting location during those hours for voters dropping off mail ballots (Secure Ballot Intake Stations).

On Election Day a Brevard County voter may vote only at the polling place for the voter's own precinct, found on the Voter Information Card or through the Supervisor of Elections online precinct finder (Supervisor of Elections).

The precinct finder on the Supervisor of Elections site matches a typed street name against a list of streets and ZIP Codes, so a voter in Malabar, West Melbourne or Viera picks the matching street to see the assigned precinct and polling place (Supervisor of Elections, precinct finder).

At the precinct, poll workers ask for current, valid identification that includes a photograph and signature, such as a Florida driver license, or two separate forms that together show both (Supervisor of Elections, Identification Requirements). The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections lists other accepted forms including a debit or credit card, a United States passport, military, student, retirement center and neighborhood association identification, a veteran health identification card and a concealed weapons license. A voter without proper identification may still vote a provisional ballot under Florida law.

A separate rule covers people who registered by mail without a Florida driver license, Florida ID card or Social Security number: they must provide identification with the registration or the first time they vote (Identification Requirements). The Brevard County Supervisor of Elections lists exemptions for voters 65 or older, voters with a temporary or permanent disability, active duty members of the armed forces or the merchant marine and their spouses and dependents who are out of the county, and eligible voters living outside the United States. Last verified: October 12, 2026, on the Brevard County Supervisor of Elections website and in the 2025 Florida Statutes.