Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia
Department 183 - RULES OF STATE ELECTION BOARD
Chapter 183-1 - GEORGIA ELECTION CODE
Subject 183-1-6 - REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS
Rule 183-1-6-.05 - Registration of Persons by College Presidents or Their Designees

(1) Authority. The president of each public or private college or university located in the State of Georgia is authorized to register to vote all qualified students, staff, and faculty at the college or university. For students domiciled in the State of Georgia, the college or university president or designee of the president shall be a deputy registrar on behalf of all boards of registration in the State of Georgia for the purpose of taking applications for voter registration for these students. For staff and faculty domiciled in the county in which the college or university is located, each college or university president or designee of the president shall be a deputy registrar of the county in which the college or university is located for the purpose of taking applications for voter registration for those faculty and staff members.

(2) Designees. Each college or university president is authorized to designate such persons as the college or university president deems appropriate for the purpose of aiding the college or university president in the exercise of the president's voter registration duties. It shall not be necessary for any person so designated to be a resident of the county in which the college or university is located. However, each person so designated shall be a registered voter in the State of Georgia and shall take an oath as a deputy registrar. The designation shall be in writing and shall be forwarded by the college or university president to the chief registrar of the county in which the college or university is located. Registration applications completed by persons who are not designated in writing to the chief registrar by the college or university president to register persons on behalf of the college or university president shall be rejected.

(3) Training. Each person designated by a college or university president to register voters on behalf of the president shall immediately contact the chief registrar of the county in which the college or university is located to undergo such training board of registrars of the county ordinarily provides for deputy registrars. Such training shall be completed prior to the individual taking any application for voter registration.

(4) Registration Applications. The board of registrars in each county in which a college or university is located shall provide to the college or university president a sufficient number of registration applications for use in registering qualified students, staff, and faculty at the college or university.

(5) Security. Any person designated by a college or university president to take voter registration applications on behalf of the college or university president shall also take such steps as are necessary to provide appropriate and adequate security for the registration applications which are placed in that person's possession. Completed voter registration applications shall be returned to the board of registrars in the county in which the college or university is located as soon as possible, but, in no event, later than the next business day.

(6) Voter Registration Places. Each place utilized for the collection and receipt of applications for voter registration by the college or university president or designee of the president shall be precleared under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. Section 1973 c). The board of registrars of the county in which the college or university is located shall be responsible for obtaining this preclearance. No registration shall be conducted at locations which have not been precleared. Door-to-door registration is prohibited.

(7) Receipt of Completed Applications. Upon the receipt of completed voter registration applications from a college or university, the board of registrars of the county in which the college or university is located shall retain those applications completed by individuals who are domiciled in the county in which the college or university is located and shall forward the remainder of the applications completed by individuals domiciled in other counties directly to the appropriate county registration offices.

(8) Limitations on Presidents and Their Designees. College and university presidents and their designees are limited to registering only those qualified students, staff and faculty at the college and university and may not register any other individuals.