---
kind: "section"
citation: "52 U.S.C. § 21121"
title: "52"
title_heading: "Voting and Elections"
number: "21121"
heading: "Establishment of program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/52/21121"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Voting Assistance and Election Administration"
  - "Chapter 209 — Election Administration Improvement"
  - "Subchapter V — Help America Vote College Program"
---

# §21121. Establishment of program

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 1 year after the appointment of its members, the [Election](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) Assistance Commission shall develop a program to be known as the “Help America Vote College Program” (hereafter in this subchapter referred to as the “Program”).
- (b) **Purposes of Program—** The purpose of the Program shall be—
  - (1) to encourage students enrolled at institutions of higher education (including community colleges) to assist [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) and local governments in the administration of [elections](/usc/52/20502.md?p=1) by serving as nonpartisan poll workers or assistants; and
  - (2) to encourage [State](/usc/52/20107.md?p=5) and local governments to use the services of the students participating in the Program.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–252, title V, § 501, Oct. 29, 2002, 116 Stat. 1717.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 15521 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.