Santa Rosa County Votes Tuesday: Polls Open 7 to 7 at Assigned Precincts After Early Voting Closed Saturday
There is no more early voting in Santa Rosa County - the window closed October 31. What remains is Election Day itself: Tuesday, November 3, 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., at your assigned polling place and nowhere else.
Santa Rosa County's long voting season narrows to a single day on Tuesday. Early voting in the county ended Saturday, October 31, after a two-week run at sites from Milton to Gulf Breeze, and the general election now comes down to Election Day: Tuesday, November 3, with polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time. The rule that matters most is the one that changes from the early window: on Election Day, Santa Rosa voters must vote at their assigned polling place. The any-site convenience of early voting is over.
The ballot waiting at those precincts is the full 2026 general election slate, including statewide Amendment 3, the proposal to raise the homestead property tax exemption to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, which needs 60 percent support to become law. Voters unsure of their assigned precinct can check with the Santa Rosa County Supervisor of Elections - the main elections office is at 6495 Caroline Street, Suite F, in Milton - before heading out, rather than discovering a wrong precinct at the check-in table. Anyone holding a mail ballot should treat Tuesday's 7 p.m. close as the hard deadline it is under Florida law and deliver it to the elections office rather than a mailbox.
Santa Rosa's early turnout now sits in the statewide count - more than 5.4 million Florida ballots were cast before Election Day - and the county's Election Day voters will decide how much of the story remains to be written. Polls close at 7 p.m.; a voter in line at 7 p.m. stays in line and votes. After that, the county that spent October digging out from Hurricane Isaias gets its say on where Florida goes next.
