GA Regs. 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.
Notes
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