Told its voter initiative’s Georgia registration info was wrong, Emory to alert students via email

The Emory University administration says it  will send a campus-wide email to students later Thursday after a reporter pointed out prior incorrect guidance provided by the Emory Voter Initiative about registering to vote in time for Georgia’s November election.

The email will contain “additional information,” Luke Anderson, Emory Vice President of Communications and Marketing wrote in an email to the Georgia Recorder this morning after a reporter sent an email to Emory’s president Wednesday night to confirm that the school knew its Emory Votes Initiative had advised students for weeks to register using the main campus address instead of dorm street addresses. The message comes on the heels of the Recorder’s Monday reporting on the misinformation given to Emory student voters.

The Georgia Secretary of State’s office and president of the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials confirmed last month that registrations using the main campus address are invalid and students who used that instead of their dorm’s street address, would be subject to challenges at the precinct. The deadline for mass challenges in Georgia has passed, but individual challenges can be pressed up until a voter casts a ballot in Georgia, according to state law.