How To Register Undeclared In Texas Voter Registration

How to Annals Voters in Texas

By Anna Whitney, Digital Director

Our state'due south laws go far unnecessarily difficult to register voters — in fact, The Nation wrote a slice about how Texas' voter registration laws are straight out of the Jim Crow playbook. That's why we're hither to explain the process and get in easy for you to aid your fellow Texans make their voices heard.

In lodge to register voters in Texas, y'all must be trained by your county as a Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR) — too known as getting "deputized" to register voters. It's a quick and piece of cake training, but we demand more Texans like you to commit to getting trained to register voters .

Meet Karen, a Volunteer Deputy Registrar in Dallas.

There are a few qualifications to becoming a Volunteer Deputy Registrar. You must be over eighteen years old, a U.Due south. citizen, a resident of the land of Texas, and non been finally convicted of a felony or of identity theft (more info hither).

Meet those criteria? You can register voters! Hither are the steps to becoming a VDR.

Steps to becoming a Volunteer Deputy Registrar:

1. Find out whether your county hosts Volunteer Deputy Registrar classes, or whether you tin can but review the laws online and become into the Elections Department someday during business hours to take a short quiz on the laws and get deputized on the spot. It depends on the county y'all live in.
  - Google your county name + "Volunteer Deputy Registrar." Check your county'due south Elections Department website for a training class schedule, or phone call the Elections Department for the info.
  - Hither'due south the information nigh trainings in Travis County, Harris Canton, Dallas County, and El Paso County.
2. Depending on your county's requirements, yous'll then attend the class or review the online training materials and make a programme to visit the Elections office to take your test
3. Get issued your certificate to register voters past the county

One time you lot're a certified VDR, you lot're gear up to go out in your community to register voters!

Please note that getting deputized in your canton means y'all're merely able to register voters who live in your county. If y'all want to register voters who alive in multiple counties, be sure to get deputized in all of those counties.

You can get trained to become a VDR at any time, but your certificate expires on Dec 31st of every fifty-fifty-numbered year — make sure you get re-trained at the outset of every odd-numbered yr.