Corpus Christi, Texas Public Records

Texas residents can register to vote online through the Texas Secretary of State at texas.gov or by submitting a voter registration application by mail; applications must be postmarked at least 30 days before an election. Voters need to provide their Texas driver's license number or personal identification number, and if they don't have either, the last four digits of their Social Security number. Municipal elections for mayor and city council occur every two years in November of odd-numbered years. The city operates under a council-manager government with a mayor and eight council members elected from single-member districts. Local ballot measures, including bond propositions for infrastructure improvements, are also decided in these elections. Residents find their assigned polling place through the Nueces County elections website, which provides a polling place lookup tool by entering name and date of birth or by address. The county operates approximately 60 election day polling locations and numerous early voting sites. In Texas, public election records include voter registration lists (available for purchase for political purposes), campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission and city clerk, candidate applications and filings, and precinct-level election results. The department publishes detailed election results on its website after each election. Texas has restrictive mail-in voting laws; absentee voting by mail is only available to voters who are 65 or older, disabled, out of the county during the election period including early voting, or confined in jail. Applications for mail-in ballots must be submitted to the Nueces County Elections Department and received (not postmarked) by the 11th day before election day. Early voting for most elections runs for two weeks before election day at multiple locations throughout Nueces County, with extended hours on some days.