Code of Virginia
Title 24.2 - Elections
Chapter 6 - The Election

§ 24.2-600. Cost of elections - The cost of conducting elections under this title shall be...

§ 24.2-601. Town election process - The electoral board and general registrar of the county within...

§ 24.2-602. Exemption for ballots and election materials from certain purchasing and procurement requirements - The provisions of Article 3, Division of Purchases and Supply,...

§ 24.2-603. Hours polls to be open; closing the polls - At all elections, the polls shall be open at each...

§ 24.2-603.1. Postponement of certain elections; state of emergency - For purposes of this section, "election" means (i) any local...

§ 24.2-604. Polling places; prohibited activities; prohibited area; penalties - A. During the times the polls are open and ballots...

§ 24.2-604.1. Signs for special entrances to polling places - The electoral board or the general registrar shall provide and...

§ 24.2-604.2. Polling places; prohibited area; emergency situations - If an emergency causes the dimensions of the prohibited area...

§ 24.2-604.3. Election day page program; high school students - A. The local electoral board, or its general registrar, may...

§ 24.2-604.4. Polling places; authorized representatives of party or candidate; prohibited activities - A. The officers of election shall permit one authorized representative...

§ 24.2-604.5. Polling places; presence of additional persons authorized - A. A local electoral board or general registrar may authorize...

§ 24.2-604.6. Polling places; simulated election activities - Minors may be permitted to enter a polling place on...

§ 24.2-605. Loudspeakers prohibited at polls; penalty - Notwithstanding any contrary statute or ordinance of a county, city,...

§ 24.2-606. Preservation of order at elections - The officers of election, with the consent of the chief...

§ 24.2-607. Prohibited conduct; intimidation of voters; disturbance of election; how prevented; penalties - A. It shall be unlawful for any person to hinder,...

§ 24.2-608. Officers to decide order of voting - The officers of election shall promptly decide any dispute as...

§ 24.2-609. Voting booths - Each electoral board or general registrar shall provide at each...

§ 24.2-610. Materials at polling places - A. The Department shall provide copies of this title to...

§ 24.2-611. Form and signing of pollbooks; records of persons voting; electronic pollbooks - A. The following oath shall be on a form prescribed...

§ 24.2-612. List of offices and candidates filed with Department of Elections and checked for accuracy; when ballots printed; number required - Immediately after the expiration of the time provided by law...

§ 24.2-612.1. Ballots; death, withdrawal, or disqualification of candidates - In the case of the death, withdrawal, or disqualification of...

§ 24.2-612.2. Notice of withdrawal of candidates - A candidate who has qualified to have his name printed...

§ 24.2-613. Form of ballot - A. The ballots shall comply with the requirements of this...

§ 24.2-614. Preparation and form of presidential election ballots - As soon as practicable after the seventy-fourth day before the...

§ 24.2-615. Separate questions for proposed constitutional amendments, etc.; uniform ballots - A separate question shall be presented for each of the...

§ 24.2-616. Duties of printer; statement; penalty - The printer contracting with or employed by the electoral board...

§ 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 - The electoral board or general registrar shall designate one person...

§ 24.2-618. Delivery of ballots to electoral board or general registrar; checking and recording number - A member of the electoral board or the general registrar,...

§ 24.2-619. Sealing ballots - A member of the electoral board or the general registrar,...

§ 24.2-620. Dividing ballots into packages for each precinct; delivery of absentee ballots - The electoral board or general registrar shall cause to be...

§ 24.2-621. Delivery of packages to officers; opening packages - Before every election the secretary of the electoral board, or...

§ 24.2-622. Unofficial sample ballots - Sample ballots not authorized by electoral boards and provided by...

§ 24.2-623. Ballot containers to be supplied by governing bodies; construction and custody - The governing body of each county and city shall provide...

§ 24.2-624. Opening and closing ballot containers; opening polls - Immediately before the opening of the polls, an officer of...

§ 24.2-625. Application of Title 24.2 and general law - All of the provisions of this title and general law...

§ 24.2-625.1. Voting equipment security - A. Records of the State Board of Elections or of...

§ 24.2-625.2. Wireless communications at polling places - There shall be no wireless communications on election day, while...

§ 24.2-626. Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting systems - A. The governing body of each county and city shall...

§ 24.2-626.1. Acquisition and use of accessible voting devices - The governing body of any county or city shall provide...

§ 24.2-627. Electronic voting systems; number required - A. The governing body of any county or city that...

§ 24.2-628. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2014, c. 540, cl. 2, effective April...

§ 24.2-629. State Board approval process of electronic voting systems - A. Any person, firm, or corporation, referred to in this...

§ 24.2-630. Experimental use of approved systems - With the approval of the State Board, the governing body...

§ 24.2-631. Experimental use of voting systems and ballots prior to approval of the system - The State Board is authorized to approve the experimental use...

§ 24.2-632. Voting equipment custodians - A. For the purpose of programming and preparing voting and...

§ 24.2-633. Notice of final testing of voting system; sealing equipment - Before the final testing of voting or counting machines for...

§ 24.2-634. Locking and securing after preparation - When voting equipment has been properly prepared for an election,...

§ 24.2-635. Demonstration of equipment - In each county, city, or town in which voting or...

§ 24.2-636. Instruction as to use of equipment - No fewer than three nor more than 30 days before...

§ 24.2-637. Furniture and equipment to be at polling places - Before the time to open the polls, each electoral board...

§ 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. - During the election, the exterior of the voting equipment and...

§ 24.2-639. Duties of officers of election - The officers of election of each precinct at which voting...

§ 24.2-640. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2014, c. 540, cl. 2, effective April...

§ 24.2-641. Sample ballot - The electoral board or general registrar shall provide for each...

§ 24.2-642. Inoperative equipment - A. When any voting or counting machine becomes inoperative in...

§ 24.2-643. Qualified voter permitted to vote; procedures at polling place; voter identification - A. After the polls are open, each qualified voter at...

§ 24.2-644. Voting by paper ballot; voting for presidential electors; write-in votes - A. The qualified voter shall take the official paper ballot...

§ 24.2-645. Defaced printed ballots - If any printed ballot is unintentionally or accidentally defaced and...

§ 24.2-646. Voter folds paper ballot and hands same to officer who deposits it unopened in ballot container - The qualified voter shall fold each paper ballot with the...

§ 24.2-646.1. Permitted use of paper ballots - The official paper ballot shall be used by a voter...

§ 24.2-647. Voting systems; demonstration on election day - The general registrar shall provide at each polling place on...

§ 24.2-648. Write-in votes on voting equipment - Write-in votes may be cast on voting equipment for any...

§ 24.2-649. Assistance for certain voters inside the polling place; penalties - A. Any qualified voter who requires assistance to vote by...

§ 24.2-649.1. Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place - A. Any voter with a disability or who is age...

§ 24.2-650. Officers to sign only official papers, etc. - No officer of election shall sign or otherwise mark any...

§ 24.2-651. Voter who is challenged; how challenge tried - Any qualified voter may, and the officers of election shall,...

§ 24.2-651.1. Voter who is shown as having already voted; provisional ballots - Any person who offers to vote, who is listed on...

§ 24.2-652. Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook; provisional ballots - A. When a person offers to vote and his name...

§ 24.2-653. Provisional voting; procedures in polling place - A. Any person voting provisionally pursuant to subsection B of...

§ 24.2-653.01. Provisional ballots; electoral boards to make determination as to validity - A. The electoral board shall meet on the day following...

§ 24.2-653.1. Voters who did not receive absentee ballots; provisional ballots - Any person who offers to vote pursuant to § 24.2-643...

§ 24.2-653.2. Ballots cast after normal close of polling hours due to court-ordered extension; provisional ballots - Whenever the polling hours are extended by an order of...

§ 24.2-653.3. Voters assigned to split precinct; provisional ballots - A. Any voter who is assigned to a precinct that...

§ 24.2-654. Officers to lock and seal voting equipment and ascertain vote after polls closed; statement of results - As soon as the polls are closed, the officers of...

§ 24.2-655. Representatives of political parties and candidates to be present on request - Before proceeding to ascertain the vote, the officers of election...

§ 24.2-656. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2003, c. 1015.

§ 24.2-657. Determination of vote on voting systems - In the presence of all persons who may be present...

§ 24.2-658. Machines with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets - If machines that print returns are used, the printed inspection...

§ 24.2-659. Locking voting systems after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns as evidence - A. If the voting system is secured by the use...

§ 24.2-660. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2004, cc. 993 and 1010.

§ 24.2-661. Detection and setting aside of double ballots - After the votes on all voting and counting equipment have...

§ 24.2-662. Procedure when paper ballots exceed names on pollbooks - If the ballots in the container exceed the number of...

§ 24.2-663. When ballot void - If a printed ballot is found to have been voted...

§ 24.2-664. Reduction in number of ballots - Whenever the number of ballots is reduced by fraudulent or...

§ 24.2-665. How paper ballots counted - A. When the number of paper ballots to be counted...

§ 24.2-666. Procedures to account for paper ballots - The State Board shall prescribe appropriate forms and procedures for...

§ 24.2-667. Completion of statement of results - At the conclusion of determining the votes cast on voting...

§ 24.2-667.1. Reporting of results; absentee votes - The general registrar shall report to the Department for each...

§ 24.2-668. Pollbooks, statements of results, and ballots to be sealed and delivered to clerk or general registrar - A. After ascertaining the results and before adjourning, the officers...

§ 24.2-669. Clerk to keep ballots; inspection; destruction - The clerk to whom the counted and uncounted ballots are...

§ 24.2-670. Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers - If the officers of election fail to deliver the materials...

§ 24.2-671. Electoral board to meet and ascertain results; conclusiveness of results - Each electoral board shall meet at the clerk's or general...

§ 24.2-671.1. Repealed - Repealed by Acts 2022, cc. 443 and 444, cl. 6.

§ 24.2-671.2. Risk-limiting audits - A. For the purposes of this section: "Contested race" means...

§ 24.2-672. Electoral board to correct irregularities in returns of officers of election - While ascertaining the results of an election, the electoral board...

§ 24.2-673. Candidates having highest number of votes to receive certificate of election - Except in the case of a recount pursuant to the...

§ 24.2-673.1. (Expires July 1, 2031) Ranked choice voting - A. For purposes of this section: "Ranked choice voting" means...

§ 24.2-674. Determination by lot in case of tie - If, prior to a recount, two or more persons have...

§ 24.2-675. Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to State Board and to clerks - As soon as the electoral board determines the persons who...

§ 24.2-676. Secretary to make out and deliver certificate of election - Immediately after the electoral board has determined the election results,...

§ 24.2-677. State Board to open and record returns; application of Freedom of Information Act - The State Board, on receipt of the certified abstracts of...

§ 24.2-678. Law-enforcement officer to be sent for abstracts not forwarded - If the State Board has not received the abstracts of...

§ 24.2-679. State Board to meet and make statement as to number of votes - A. The State Board shall meet by the first Monday...

§ 24.2-680. Certificates of election - Subject to the requirements of § 24.2-948.2, the State Board...

§ 24.2-681. How special elections superintended and determined - All special elections shall be superintended and held, notice thereof...

§ 24.2-682. Times for special elections - A. Notwithstanding any charter or special act to the contrary,...

§ 24.2-683. Writ for special election to fill a vacancy - Whenever the Governor, Speaker of the House, President pro tempore...

§ 24.2-684. How referendum elections called and held, and the results ascertained and certified - Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or charter to...

§ 24.2-684.1. Requirements for voter petitions to call for referendum elections - In addition to other applicable requirements of law, the following...

§ 24.2-685. Special elections; request for abolition of constitutional offices - A. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to...

§ 24.2-686. Special elections; petition and referendum requirements; abolition of constitutional office by change in form of government - The provisions of § 24.2-685 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to...

§ 24.2-687. Authorization for distribution of information on referendum elections - A. The governing body of any county, city or town...

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Code of Virginia Title 24.2 - Elections Chapter 6 - The Election

Code of Virginia
Title 24.2 - Elections
Chapter 6 - The Election