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class="article-full__body"> <div class="product-service-body col span-9"> <div class="field field-type-text-long"> <div class="signpost--highlight article-full__body" style="background: #f2f4f6; border: 2px solid #c3d1d6;"><p>We will be retiring the student voter registration service on 31 July 2023. Only existing subscribers and participating local authorities will have access to the service until then, we are not accepting new sign ups. </p><p style=" margin-bottom: 0px; ">If you have any questions, contact <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/mailto:studentvote@jisc.ac.uk">studentvote@jisc.ac.uk</a></p></div><h2>About student voter registration</h2><p>Promoting your students’ civic engagement and encouraging them to take part in democratic processes is an important part of your organisation’s wider role in preparing them for their future lives.</p><p>Registration with the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/">Office for Students</a> requires English higher education (<span class="lexicon-term has-tooltip" title="higher education"><abbr title="higher education">HE</abbr></span>) providers to take steps to facilitate the electoral registration of students.</p><div id="promoboxlocation"></div><p>To register students to vote, institutions need to liaise with the electoral registrars where their students live. This can be complex for individual institutions to administer, particularly when multiple electoral registrars are involved.</p><p>Developed in consultation with the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/http://arc.ac.uk/">Academic Registrars Council (ARC)</a> and the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/http://ahua.ac.uk/">Association of Heads of University Administration (AHUA)</a>, this shared service provides a simple way for students to register to vote and helps your organisation achieve compliance with the Office of Students' requirements in an easy and cost-effective way.</p><h2>Benefits to your organisation</h2><p>Our service can help you to:</p><ul><li><strong>Encourage students to engage</strong> with the democratic process</li><li><strong>Increase efficiency </strong>– save the time and money you’d spend on developing and maintaining your own system</li><li><strong>Facilitate compliance</strong> with the Office of Students' mandatory requirement for facilitating electoral registration</li></ul><h2>Key features</h2><ul><li>Developed and operated by Jisc on behalf on the sector</li><li>Fully compliant with the <span class="lexicon-term has-tooltip" title="General Data Protection Regulation"><abbr title="General Data Protection Regulation">GDPR</abbr></span> and operated from our secure data centres</li><li>Seamless, secure data transfer via <a href="/web/20221006182907/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uk-federation">UK Access Management Federation</a></li><li>Monthly reports showing aggregated, anonymised data, enabling registrars to track progress and benchmark it across the sector</li></ul><div class="is-tabbed-desktop"> <section class="is-collapsible-mobile cx_tabs__section"> <h2 class="cx_tabs__heading cx_collapsibles__trigger">How it works</h2><div class="cx_collapsibles__target"><p>When you subscribe to the service, we provide your students with access to the web app. You can then share the necessary data securely with Jisc via the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/https://www.jisc.ac.uk/uk-federation">UK Access Management Federation (UKAMF)</a>. It is a secure, proven way to transfer personal data and to ensure that your organisation remains compliant with the <a href="/web/20221006182907/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/gdpr">General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)</a>.</p></div></section><section class="is-collapsible-mobile cx_tabs__section"> <h2 class="cx_tabs__heading cx_collapsibles__trigger">Terms and conditions</h2><div class="cx_collapsibles__target"><p>Use of this service is subject to adherence to:</p><ul><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7320/1/student_voter_registration_service_terms_and_conditions.pdf">Student voter registration service terms and conditions (pdf)</a></li><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7319/1/student_voter_registration_data_sharing_terms_and_conditions.pdf">Data sharing terms and conditions (pdf)</a></li><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/https://repository.jisc.ac.uk/7426/1/student-voter-registration-security-management.pdf">Student voter registration security management (pdf)</a></li></ul></div></section><section class="is-collapsible-mobile cx_tabs__section"> <h2 class="cx_tabs__heading cx_collapsibles__trigger">In the news</h2><div class="cx_collapsibles__target"><ul><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/http://wonkhe.com/blogs/votes-for-students-getting-everyone-on-the-register/">Votes for students: getting everyone on the register</a> (WONKHE, April 2019)</li><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/http://www.ukauthority.com/articles/jisc-develops-app-for-student-electoral-registration/">Jisc develops app for student electoral registration</a> (UK Authority, July 2018)</li><li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221006182907/http://universitybusiness.co.uk/Article/new-app-to-encourage-university-students-to-register-to-vote/">New app 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