Emory University administration says it will send a campus-wide email to students later Thursday after a reporter previously pointed out false guidance from the Emory Voter Initiative regarding registering to vote in time for Georgia's November election .

The email will contain “additional information,” Luke Anderson, vice president of communications and marketing at Emory, wrote in an email to Georgia recorder this morning, after a reporter emailed Emory's president Wednesday evening to confirm that the school was aware that its Emory Votes Initiative had for weeks advised students to register using the main campus address rather than dorm street addresses. The news follows on the heels recorder The misinformation given to Emory student voters was reported on Monday.

The Georgia Secretary of State's office and the president of the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials confirmed last month that registrations using the primary campus address are invalid and students who use that address instead of their dorm address will face county challenges become . The deadline for mass challenges in Georgia has passed, but individual challenges can be delayed under state law until a Georgia voter casts their ballot.

The Emory Votes Initiative is an administratively approved program of the Emory Center for Civic and Community Engagement.

“Georgia law requires registered voters to register at their home address,” Robert Sinners, communications director for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, told Georgia recorder in a statement last week, citing Georgia code.

Sinners added that students must update their registrations each year to include their residence hall addresses, even if they move within campus.

“As the student is moving from one address to another, they will need to update their voter registration address to reflect their new home address,” he said. “The reason this is important is because districts (particularly city districts, statehouses, state senates, etc.) may intersect a particular university campus or street. Moving a few blocks away could change the ballot you receive in November.”

When asked directly last week about students using a general campus address instead of their specific home address and whether that would affect their ability to vote, Sinners reiterated that Georgia law requires voters to register at their home address.

Travis Doss Jr., president of the Georgia Association of Voter Registration and Election Officials and executive director of the Augusta-Richmond County Board of Elections, said there is a possibility that Emory registrations could be challenged in the Emory Votes Initiative information. Although there is a 45-day grace period before the election that prevents mass challenges by voters, he said, that would not prevent the possibility of a targeted challenge.

“There is also a provision in the law that says an individual voter can be challenged up to the point at which they cast their vote,” Doss said.

At least hundreds of Emory students registered online using false information provided by the Emory Votes Initiative through the program portal. In the 30 days prior to September 21, 328 students registered through TurboVote, an online system that uses EVI to register students, and 426 registered through the system as of July 1.

The number of students affected is likely higher as the numbers only represent those who used the online TurboVote system and most students register with EVI in person or use the EVI website resources themselves.

This story was provided by WABE content partner Georgia Recorder.