---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 1226.5"
title: "45"
number: "1226.5"
heading: "Electoral, voter registration, and other activities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/1226.5"
---

# §1226.5. Electoral, voter registration, and other activities.


Volunteers or other assistance, in any program under the Act shall not be assigned or provided to an organization if a principal purpose or activity of the organization includes any of the following activities:

- (a) **Electoral Activities.** Any activity designed to influence the outcome of elections to any public office, such as:
  - (1) Actively campaigning for or against or supporting candidates for public office;
  - (2) Raising, soliciting or collecting funds for candidates for public office;
  - (3) Preparing, distributing or providing funds for campaign literature for candidates, including leaflets pamphlets, and material designed for the print or electronic media;
- (b) **Voter Registration Activities.** Any voter registration activity, such as
  - (1) Providing transportation of individuals to voter registration sites;
  - (2) Providing assistance to individuals in the process of registering to vote, including determinations of eligibility;
  - (3) **Disseminating official voter registration material.**
- (c) **Transportation to the Polls.** Providing voters or prospective voters with transportation to the polls or raising, soliciting or collecting funds for such activity.
- (d) Any program sponsor which, subsequent to the receipt of any federal assistance under the Act, makes as one of its principal purposes or activities any of the activities described in § 1226.5 hereof shall be subject to the suspension or termination of such assistance, as provided in [45 CFR part 1206](/cfr/45/part1206.md).

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 5043.

### Source

Source: 46 FR 8522, Jan. 27, 1981, unless otherwise noted.