2011 Code of Virginia
Title 24.2 ELECTIONS.
Chapter 6 The Election (24.2-600 thru 24.2-687)
24.2-647 Voting equipment; demonstration on election day

24.2-647. Voting equipment; demonstration on election day.

The electoral board shall provide at each polling place on election day, for the voting device in use, a model of, or materials displaying, a portion of its ballot face. The model or materials shall be located on the table of one of the officers or in some other place accessible to the voters. An officer of election shall instruct any voter, who requests instruction before voting, on the proper manner of voting. The officer may direct the voter's attention to sample ballots so that the voter may become familiar with the location of questions and names of offices and candidates.

For equipment using ballots inserted in electronic counting devices, an officer of election, using a demonstration ballot and equipment, shall show each voter who requests, immediately on entry to the polling place, the manner in which the ballot is to be voted.

If any voter, after entering the voting booth, asks for further instructions concerning the manner of voting, two of the officers, from different political parties shall give such instructions to him, but no officer shall in any manner request, or seek to persuade or induce any such voter to vote for or against any particular ticket, candidate, or question. After giving such instructions and before the voter votes, the officers shall leave the voting booth, and the voter shall cast his ballot in secret.

(Code 1950, 24-309; 1970, c. 462, 24.1-219; 1980, c. 639; 1985, c. 458; 1993, c. 641.)