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2011 Code of Virginia
Title 24.2 ELECTIONS.
Chapter 6 The Election (24.2-600 thru 24.2-687)
- 24.2-600 Cost of elections
- 24.2-601 Town election process
- 24.2-602 Exemption for ballots and election materials from certain purchasing and procurement requirement...
- 24.2-603 Hours polls to be open; closing the polls
- 24.2-603.1 Postponement of certain elections; state of emergency
- 24.2-604 Prohibited activities at polls; notice of prohibited area; electioneering; presence of representati...
- 24.2-604.1 Signs for special entrances to polling places
- 24.2-604.2 Polling places; prohibited area; emergency situations
- 24.2-605 Loudspeakers prohibited at polls; penalty
- 24.2-606 Preservation of order at elections
- 24.2-607 Prohibited conduct; intimidation of voters; disturbance of election; how prevented; penaltie...
- 24.2-608 Officers to decide order of voting
- 24.2-609 Voting booths
- 24.2-610 Materials at polling places
- 24.2-611 Form and signing of pollbooks; records of persons voting; electronic pollbooks
- 24.2-612 List of offices and candidates filed with State Board and checked for accuracy; when ballots printe...
- 24.2-612.1 Ballots; death, withdrawal, or disqualification of candidates
- 24.2-613 Form of ballot
- 24.2-614 Preparation and form of presidential election ballots
- 24.2-615 Separate ballots for proposed constitutional amendments, etc.; uniform ballots
- 24.2-616 Duties of printer; statement; penalty
- 24.2-617 Representative of electoral board to be present at printing; custody of ballots; electoral board ma...
- 24.2-618 Delivery of ballots to electoral board; checking and recording number
- 24.2-619 Sealing ballots
- 24.2-620 Dividing ballots into packages for each precinct; delivery of absentee ballots
- 24.2-621 Delivery of packages to officers; opening packages
- 24.2-622 Sample ballots
- 24.2-623 Ballot containers to be supplied by governing bodies; construction and custody
- 24.2-624 Opening and closing ballot containers; opening polls
- 24.2-625 Application of Title 24.2 and general law
- 24.2-625.1 Voting equipment security
- 24.2-625.2 Wireless communications at polling places
- 24.2-626 Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting or counting systems
- 24.2-626.1 Acquisition and use of accessible voting devices.
- 24.2-627 Mechanical and electronic voting or counting devices; number required
- 24.2-628 Authorized use of mechanical voting devices
- 24.2-629 Authorized use of electronic systems and ballots
- 24.2-630 Experimental use of approved systems
- 24.2-631 Experimental use of voting systems and ballots prior to approval of the system
- 24.2-632 Voting equipment custodians
- 24.2-633 Notice of final testing of equipment; sealing equipment
- 24.2-634 Locking and securing after preparation
- 24.2-635 Demonstration of equipment
- 24.2-636 Instruction as to use of equipment
- 24.2-637 Furniture and equipment to be at polling places
- 24.2-638 Voting equipment to be in plain view; officers and others not permitted to see actual voting; unloc...
- 24.2-639 Duties of officers of election
- 24.2-640 Ballots generally
- 24.2-641 Sample ballot
- 24.2-642 Inoperative equipment
- 24.2-643 Qualified voter permitted to vote; procedures at polling place; voter identification
- 24.2-644 Voting by paper ballot; voting for presidential electors; write-in votes
- 24.2-645 Defaced paper ballots
- 24.2-646 Voter folds paper ballot and hands same to officer who deposits it unopened in ballot containe...
- 24.2-646.1 Permitted use of paper ballots.
- 24.2-647 Voting equipment; demonstration on election day
- 24.2-648 Write-in votes on voting equipment
- 24.2-649 Assistance for certain voters
- 24.2-650 Officers to sign only official papers, etc
- 24.2-651 Voter who is challenged; how challenge tried
- 24.2-651.1 Voter who is shown as having already voted; challenge and procedure for voting; voter identificatio...
- 24.2-652 Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook
- 24.2-653 Voter whose name does not appear on pollbook; handling of provisional ballots; ballots cast after n...
- 24.2-653.1 Voters who did not receive absentee ballots; provisional ballots
- 24.2-654 Officers to lock and seal voting equipment and ascertain vote after polls closed; statement of resu...
- 24.2-655 Representatives of political parties and candidates to be present on request
- 24.2-656 Description unavailable
- 24.2-657 Determination of vote on voting equipment
- 24.2-658 Devices with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets
- 24.2-659 Locking voting and counting devices after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns a...
- 24.2-660 Description unavailable
- 24.2-661 Detection and setting aside of double ballots
- 24.2-662 Procedure when paper ballots exceed names on pollbooks
- 24.2-663 When ballot void
- 24.2-664 Reduction in number of ballots
- 24.2-665 How paper ballots counted
- 24.2-666 Procedures to account for paper ballots
- 24.2-667 Completion of statement of results
- 24.2-668 Pollbooks, statements of results, and ballots to be sealed and delivered to clerk or general regist...
- 24.2-669 Clerk to keep ballots; inspection; destruction
- 24.2-670 Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers
- 24.2-671 Electoral board to meet and ascertain results; conclusiveness of results
- 24.2-671.1 Pilot programs for audits of optical scan tabulators
- 24.2-672 Electoral board to correct irregularities in returns of officers of election
- 24.2-673 Candidates having highest number of votes to receive certificate of election
- 24.2-674 Determination by lot in case of tie
- 24.2-675 Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to State Board and to clerks
- 24.2-676 Secretary to make out and deliver certificate of election
- 24.2-677 State Board to open and record returns; application of Freedom of Information Act
- 24.2-678 Law-enforcement officer to be sent for abstracts not forwarded
- 24.2-679 State Board to meet and make statement as to number of votes
- 24.2-680 Certificates of election
- 24.2-681 How special elections superintended and determined
- 24.2-682 Times for special elections
- 24.2-683 Writ for special election to fill a vacancy
- 24.2-684 How referendum elections called and held, and the results ascertained and certified
- 24.2-684.1 Requirements for voter petitions to call for referendum elections
- 24.2-685 Special elections; request for abolition of constitutional offices
- 24.2-686 Special elections; petition and referendum requirements; abolition of constitutional office by chan...
- 24.2-687 Authorization for distribution of information on referendum elections
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