Spring Hill voters face Aug. 6 mail-ballot deadline before Aug. 18 primary

Spring Hill voters who want to vote by mail in Hernando County’s Aug. 18, 2026, primary must request a ballot by Aug. 6, according to the Hernando County Supervisor of Elections. The deadline is the next major date in the county’s published election schedule.

Residents who plan to vote before Election Day can use the scheduled early-voting period from Aug. 8 through Aug. 15. Early voting will be available from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Spring Hill elections office, 7443 Forest Oaks Blvd., and Spring Hill Library, 9220 Spring Hill Drive.

Three dates to track

The county’s schedule creates three separate points for voters to mark. Aug. 6 is the deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot. Aug. 8-15 is the early-voting window. The primary itself is Aug. 18, with Election Day polling places scheduled to open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The Aug. 6 date applies to requesting a vote-by-mail ballot. The approved county information does not identify it as a deadline for returning a completed ballot, and it does not provide a separate ballot-return deadline. Voters using the mail-ballot option should make the request before the county’s stated deadline.

The early-voting sites listed for Spring Hill are different from a voter’s regular Election Day polling place. The county instructs voters to verify their assigned precinct for Aug. 18 rather than assuming that either early-voting location will be their Election Day site.

What the county information includes

The county release, published June 23, identifies the elections office at 7443 Forest Oaks Blvd. and Spring Hill Library at 9220 Spring Hill Drive as the local locations connected to the early-voting schedule. It also provides the Election Day hours and the instruction to check precinct assignments.

That material does not identify which party contests or candidates will appear on each ballot. It also does not include a precinct-by-precinct list of Election Day polling places. Those details are therefore not included here.

For Spring Hill voters, the practical timeline is straightforward: request a vote-by-mail ballot by Aug. 6, vote early at a listed site from Aug. 8-15 between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., or vote at the assigned Election Day polling place on Aug. 18 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. Voters choosing Election Day should verify their precinct before going.