Become a Deputy Voter Registrar

A Deputy Voter Registrar (DVR) may help a voter complete their application, accept it, and return it to the county voter registrar. You are acting in the capacity of a county official, so you follow the law to the letter and you meet every deadline.

Working a location with shifts through the day? Leave your completed cards with the next shift; team leaders collect them and return them. In Austin you can leave applications at the Travis County Coordinated Campaign office, 4005 Banister Lane, Building B, with Glen Maxey, who delivers them to the registrar nightly.

Two ways to get trained

Online, on your own schedule

Celia Israel, the Travis County Voter Registrar, is encouraging anyone in the state to take the Travis County training. Sign up for a training here. The online course is short and ends in a simple test: score 80% and your DVR certificate arrives by email the next morning. Take the training over Zoom instead and there is no test at all.

Step-by-step instructions for the Travis County training.

Through your own county

Contact your county voter registrar and ask when they next hold an in-person or online training. When you finish and receive your certificate, ask for a supply of voter registration applications. Find your county voter registrar.

Certify in your home county

A certified DVR can be appointed in another county without repeating the training. Take or email your certificate — a printout or your phone screen — to that county's voter registration office with this request. It works the same way for every neighboring county you want to cover.

Fill out this form and send it with your Travis Certification to YOUR county voter registrar. Print Form 22-3, the request for appointment as a volunteer deputy registrar, fill it in, and take it with you.

Get enough applications

Pick up a supply of voter registration applications from your registrar, and take more than you think you will need. Running out mid-event is the one shortage you cannot improvise around.

If your registrar cannot give you enough, print your own from the Secretary of State's approved application for use by deputies — Form 21-1 in English or Form 21-1 in Spanish. You can make unlimited copies. The receipt on a printed copy is not perforated, so add scissors to your bag.

Turn in your applications quickly

The sooner you turn your applications in, the sooner the voter is on the rolls. You are required to turn them in within five days. At the deadline, though, every one of them must be in by Tuesday, October 6, 2026.