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Title 52 — Voting and ElectionsRelease 119-73

§21122 Activities under Program

Title 52 › Subtitle Subtitle II— - Voting Assistance and Election Administration › Chapter CHAPTER 209— - ELECTION ADMINISTRATION IMPROVEMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - HELP AMERICA VOTE COLLEGE PROGRAM › § 21122

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Run the Program, the Commission must work with each State’s chief election official to create materials, hold seminars and workshops, run student-targeted advertising, give grants, and take other steps it thinks needed to meet the Program’s goals. Grants and projects must be nonpartisan and not push any political view, and recipients must be run in a balanced way. The Commission must encourage colleges, including community colleges, to join and must give them all materials and help free of charge, including help for workshops and poll-worker training.

Full Legal Text

Title 52, §21122

Voting and Elections — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In carrying out the Program, the Commission (in consultation with the chief election official of each State) shall develop materials, sponsor seminars and workshops, engage in advertising targeted at students, make grants, and take such other actions as it considers appropriate to meet the purposes described in section 21121(b) of this title.
(b)In making grants under the Program, the Commission shall ensure that the funds provided are spent for projects and activities which are carried out without partisan bias or without promoting any particular point of view regarding any issue, and that each recipient is governed in a balanced manner which does not reflect any partisan bias.
(c)The Commission shall encourage institutions of higher education (including community colleges) to participate in the Program, and shall make all necessary materials and other assistance (including materials and assistance to enable the institution to hold workshops and poll worker training sessions) available without charge to any institution which desires to participate in the Program.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 15522 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

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Citation

52 U.S.C. § 21122

Title 52 — Voting and Elections

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73