Voting started in Georgia on Monday, and the Student Government Association is doing what it can to help.

The group is holding a voter registration drive today outside the Ramsey Student Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This drive will be the first of two drives to register students before the state’s Oct. 6 registration deadline.

“I think this election will show that students are going to be very civically engaged,” said SGA President Connor McCarthy, citing the drives this semester by College Republicans and Young Democrats.

“Students really have a voice this year and we’re going to prove to be very important,” he said.

“We noticed there were a lot of voter registration drives on North Campus,” said Kimberly Darnton, SGA senator for the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. “We wanted to make sure we hit South Campus and Ramsey as well.”

Early voting began Monday. Officials began mailing absentee ballots to those who have requested them. Georgia law eliminated the requirement that absentee voters must have a valid excuse for voting absentee.