VRAV provides professional certification for general registrars and assistant registrars through the University of Virginia's Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and the Division of Continuing Education. This is the first state program conceived in the country by a state organization of election officials. It is also the first program for election officials sponsored by an institute of higher learning. Contact with registrars in specific jurisdictions may be made via telephone. Voters A democracy can be no stronger than the honesty of its election process.
Registrars are on the front line in the daily fight to preserve what makes our nation great.