Would you like to support our country’s democratic process by helping people register to vote?

Austin Community College faculty and staff are invited to attend voter registrar training Friday, September 25, from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Highland Business Center Room 301. Travis County Tax Assessor Bruce Elfant will lead the session.

A volunteer deputy voter registrar distributes, reviews, and accepts completed voter registration applications and applications from voters wanting to change or update their information. Volunteer registrars serve two-year terms that expire December 31 of even-numbered years.

The session is free and participants can earn professional development credit. Sign up through the Workshops & Event Registration webpage.

Volunteer registrars must be at least 18 years old, a U.S. citizen, and a Texas resident. Volunteers must not have been:

• Determined by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be (1) totally mentally incapacitated or (2) partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote;
• Convicted of failing to deliver a voter application to a voter registrar;
• Convicted of a felony or, if so convicted, must have fully discharged the sentence, including any term of incarceration, parole, or supervision, or completed a period of probation ordered by any court; or be pardoned or otherwise released from the resulting disability to vote; or
• Convicted of identity theft under Section 32.51 of the Penal Code.

To learn more about serving as a volunteer registrar, visit the Travis County Tax Office Voter webpage. For more information about the training session, contact Alicia Del Rio, manager of elections and government relations, at 512 223-7071.

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