How Businesses Can Help with Voter Registration

This content is intended to serve as general information; it is not legal advice nor intended as legal advice.

Texas has one of the lowest voter-registration rates in the nation. Businesses who want to help with the registration of new voters can take steps to do so, so we've put together a list of helpful dos and don'ts.

What businesses CAN do:

• Place voter-registration cards on your counter or in your establishment.
• Post reminders of voter-registration deadlines and procedures.
• Provide space for a Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR) to assist with the voter-registration process.
• Post political advertisements.
• Provide stamped envelopes for customers to submit completed voter registration forms.

What businesses SHOULD NOT do:

• Do not offer customers “anything of value” in exchange for registering to vote, actually voting, or promising to do either.
• Do not allow employees to collect, submit or mail completed voter-registration forms unless that employee is a trained VDR
• Do not penalize employees for voting or for registering to vote.

Please find a copy of this information available to download and print below.

Need help or more information?

• Visit the Secretary of State website to fill out a voter registration application in English
• Visit the Secretary of State website to fill out a voter registration application in Spanish
• Visit VoteTexas.gov in English for more information on getting registered to vote
• Visit VoteTexas.gov in Spanish for more information on getting registered to vote