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2018 Code of Virginia
Title 24.2 - Elections
Chapter 6 - The Election
Article 1. General Provisions; Polling Places
- § 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 requirements
- § 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 representatives of parties or candidates; simulated elections; observers; news media; penalties
- § 24.2-604.1. Signs for special entrances to polling places
- § 24.2-604.2. Polling places; prohibited area; emergency situations
- § 24.2-604.3. Election day page program; high school students
- § 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; penalties
- § 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
Article 2. Ballots
- § 24.2-612. List of offices and candidates filed with Department of Elections and checked for accuracy; when ballots printed; number required
- § 24.2-612.1. Ballots; death, withdrawal, or disqualification of candidates
- § 24.2-612.2. Notice of withdrawal of candidates
- § 24.2-613. Form of ballot
- § 24.2-614. Preparation and form of presidential election ballots
- § 24.2-615. Separate questions for proposed constitutional amendments, etc.; uniform ballots
- § 24.2-616. Duties of printer; statement; penalty
- § 24.2-617. Representative of electoral board or general registrar to be present at printing; custody of ballots; electoral board or general registrar may disclose contents, style, and size
- § 24.2-618. Delivery of ballots to electoral board or general registrar; 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
Article 3. Voting Equipment and Systems
- § 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. (Effective until July 1, 2020) Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting and counting machines
- § 24.2-626. (Effective July 1, 2020) Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting systems
- § 24.2-626.1. Acquisition and use of accessible voting devices
- § 24.2-627. (Effective until July 1, 2020) Electronic voting or counting machines; number required
- § 24.2-627. (Effective July 1, 2020) Electronic voting systems; number required
- § 24.2-628. Repealed
- § 24.2-629. State Board approval process of electronic voting systems
- § 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 voting system; 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; unlocking counter compartment of equipment, etc.
- § 24.2-639. (Effective until July 1, 2020) Duties of officers of election
- § 24.2-639. (Effective July 1, 2020) Duties of officers of election
- § 24.2-640. Repealed
- § 24.2-641. Sample ballot
- § 24.2-642. Inoperative equipment
Article 4. Conduct of Election; Election Results
- § 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 printed ballots
- § 24.2-646. Voter folds paper ballot and hands same to officer who deposits it unopened in ballot container
- § 24.2-646.1. Permitted use of paper ballots
- § 24.2-647. Voting systems; demonstration on election day
- § 24.2-648. Write-in votes on voting equipment
- § 24.2-649. Assistance for certain voters; penalties
- § 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; provisional voting
- § 24.2-652. Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook
- § 24.2-653. Voter whose name does not appear on pollbook or who is marked as having voted; handling of provisional ballots; ballots cast after normal close of polls due to court order extending polling hours
- § 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 results
- § 24.2-655. Representatives of political parties and candidates to be present on request
- § 24.2-656. Repealed
- § 24.2-657. (Effective until July 1, 2020) Determination of vote on voting systems
- § 24.2-657. (Effective July 1, 2020) Determination of vote on voting systems
- § 24.2-658. Machines with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets
- § 24.2-659. (Effective until July 1, 2020) Locking voting and counting machines after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns as evidence
- § 24.2-659. (Effective July 1, 2020) Locking voting systems after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns as evidence
- § 24.2-660. Repealed
- § 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 registrar
- § 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. Audits of ballot scanner machines
- § 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
Article 5. Special Elections
- § 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 change in form of government
- § 24.2-687. Authorization for distribution of information on referendum elections
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