The two dates, the five early voting sites, and where you actually go. Every fact on this page comes from the Nassau County Supervisor of Elections, and this page takes no sides, on purpose: who filed, what the county counted, and nothing else.
The count
Reading the county’s count…
Primary election
Tuesday, August 18
Polls open 7 AM to 7 PM
Early voting: August 6 to 15, 9 AM to 6 PM daily, weekends included.
On election day you vote at your assigned precinct only.
Vote-by-mail requests closed August 6. A ballot you already have counts if it is in by 7 PM election day.
Registration for this election closed July 20.
General election
Tuesday, November 3
Polls open 7 AM to 7 PM
Register, or update your registration, by October 5.
Early voting: October 22 to 31, 9 AM to 6 PM daily.
Request a vote-by-mail ballot by October 22, 5 PM.
Where to vote early
During early voting, any registered Nassau County voter can use any of the five sites. One of them is on the island.
Atlantic Recreation Center, 2500 Atlantic AvenueOn the islandFernandina Beach
James S. Page Governmental Complex, 96135 Nassau PlaceYulee
Yulee Sports Complex, 86142 Goodbread RoadYulee
Walter Junior Boatright County Building, 45401 N. Mickler StreetCallahan
Hilliard Community Center, 37177 Pecan StreetHilliard
On election day
Election day is different: you vote only at your assigned precinct, 7 AM to 7 PM. Look yours up by house number with the county’s precinct locator, and check your sample ballot before you go. Sample ballots post about 30 days before each election.
Vote by mail
✦A mail ballot counts when the elections office has it by 7 PM on election day. A postmark is not enough.
✦Drop it at a secure ballot intake station: inside the elections office in Yulee (8 AM to 5 PM), inside the Fernandina Beach Historic Courthouse satellite office (8:30 AM to 5 PM), or inside any early voting site while early voting runs.
✦They are all indoors, and staffed. The drop box that used to sit outside the elections office is no longer in use, so there is nowhere to leave a ballot after hours. Stations are monitored by election workers and emptied at the close of each day.
✦Florida law does not allow intake stations at polling places on election day. That day, deliver it to the elections office instead.
✦Track your ballot at NassauFLVotes.com, the county’s ballot-status service.
On the 2026 ballot
The offices, as the Supervisor of Elections lists them. Offices only, on purpose: for who is running, your sample ballot is the official list.
✦County Commission, Districts 2 and 4
✦County Court Judge, Group 1
✦School Board, Districts 1, 3 and 5
✦Amelia Island Mosquito Control, Groups 2 and 3
✦Ocean, Highway and Port Authority, Groups 3, 4 and 5
✦Soil and Water Conservation, Groups 1, 3 and 5
✦Community development district seats in Amelia Concourse, Amelia National, Amelia Walk, Heron Isles, River Glen and Three Rivers
The statewide and federal field is listed below, from the Florida Division of Elections. City of Fernandina Beach seats can fall in August or November depending on how many candidates file; the city clerk has the details at (904) 310-3115.
Who’s running
The contested county races, as the Supervisor of Elections’ candidate dashboard lists them, checked August 12, 2026. Where a candidate publishes their own campaign site it is linked; every link below was opened and checked, and the words on the other end are the candidate’s own, not ours. The commission primaries are universal — only Republicans qualified and no one else filed — so these races appear on every voter’s August 18 ballot regardless of party, per the News4JAX voter guides.
Amelia Island Mosquito Control, Group 2(nonpartisan)
Todd Nuckols · Debby Portierno campaign sites on file
Amelia Walk CDD residents also choose Seat 2 (William Knudsen, David Swan) and Seat 4 (Jeffrey Robinson, Cathleen Rutsey); none publish campaign sites. Nine more county offices drew a single candidate each and are unopposed — an unopposed race may not appear on the ballot at all. “No site on file” means exactly that as of the check date, nothing more.
Statewide and federal races
The statewide field, exactly as the Florida Division of Elections’ candidate file lists it for the 2026 election, downloaded August 12, 2026. Names and parties are the state’s own; candidates the state marks withdrawn or not qualified are left out here, and the full file — every filing, every status — is at dos.elections.myflorida.com. No campaign links in this section, on purpose: we link only pages we have read, and this field is 47 candidates. Which of these names appear on your own August 18 or November 3 ballot is answered by your sample ballot, the official list.
United States Senator7 qualified
Neil J. GillespieNPA
Chris GleasonREP
Ashley MoodyREP
Angie NixonDEM
Neelam Taneja PerryREP
Ernest “Ernie” RiveraREP
Alex VindmanDEM
Governor29 qualified
Dean Ocean AbramsNPA
Kathy AndersonWRI
Charles BurkettNPA
Evelyn Castillo-BachDEM
Jay CollinsREP
Jeffrey Peter “Dr. Jeff” DattoNPA
David “DJ” DeJesusWRI
Richard Paul DembinskyWRI
Moliere “Moe” DimancheNPA
Byron DonaldsREP
Thomas Eloy FernandezDEM
James FishbackREP
Dayna Marie FosterDEM
Jim HolcombREP
Scott Eckhard JewettLPF
David JollyDEM
Dotie JosephDEM
M.W. KhanWRI
Arthur Joseph McCaffreyREP
Desmond MeadeNPA
Erik MorrisWRI
Daniel NokovichREP
Stephann NormanDEM
Paul RennerREP
Rachel RodriguezREP
Frank J. RussoNPA
James W. ShawREP
Caneste SucceREP
Bobby WilliamsREP
Attorney General2 qualified
Jose Javier RodriguezDEM
James UthmeierREP
Chief Financial Officer4 qualified
Frank William ColligeREP
Earle FordDEM
Blaise IngogliaREP
Annette TaddeoDEM
Commissioner of Agriculture5 qualified
Kyle “KC” GibsonWRI
Joey Mendoza AtkinsDEM
Donald A. “Don” PrichardDEM
Wilton SimpsonREP
Matt TaylorREP
Party codes are the state’s own: REP Republican Party of Florida · DEM Florida Democratic Party · LPF Libertarian Party of Florida · NPA no party affiliation · WRI write-in. U.S. House and state legislative races run by district; your sample ballot says which districts cover your address.
The Supervisor of Elections
Nassau County Supervisor of Elections
James S. Page Governmental Complex, 96135 Nassau Place, Suite 3, Yulee, FL 32097
(904) 491-7500 · toll-free 1-866-260-4301 · Monday to Friday, 8 AM to 5 PM
votenassaufl.gov covers registration, precinct lookup, sample ballots, early voting and vote-by-mail.
Every fact on this page was read from votenassaufl.gov — and, for the statewide section, from the Florida Division of Elections’ candidate file — on August 12, 2026. The vote-by-mail section was re-checked against the Supervisor’s secure ballot intake station page on August 14, 2026. Dates and sites can change. Verify before you drive.