Voter Registration
The College of Charleston is committed to getting students registered and out to vote. If you are a South Carolina resident, you can choose whether to vote here in Charleston or to vote at home with an absentee ballot. You are legally entitled to choose where you prefer to vote—here where you go to school or back in your hometown. If you live on-campus, however, it is important that you use the official street address of the residence hall and NOT your College of Charleston box number. Since January 1, 2013 all voters will be required to show a photo ID when you go to vote. If the address on your ID differs from the one you used on the registration, be sure to take a piece of “official mail” with you showing your campus address.
How-To Guide on Voting
The Office of the Dean of Students and many others on campus strive to make sure that young people, especially college students, are heard in elections. We want to make sure that students are registered and can vote so that local, state, and national political candidates will pay attention to college students and the issues that matter most to them. During our orientation sessions, students are encouraged to come to the Office of the Dean of Students to pick up a South Carolina voter registration form and learn about state registration rules or how to file an absentee ballot.