Chapter 6. The ElectionRead Chapter
- Article 1. General Provisions; Polling PlacesRead all
- § 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
- Polling places; prohibited activities; prohibited area; 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
- § 24.2-604.4
- Polling places; authorized representatives of party or candidate; prohibited activities
- § 24.2-604.5
- Polling places; presence of additional persons authorized
- § 24.2-604.6
- Polling places; simulated election activities
- § 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. BallotsRead all
- § 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
- (Effective until January 1, 2025) Notice of withdrawal of candidates
- § 24.2-612.2
- (Effective January 1, 2025) 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
- Unofficial 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 SystemsRead all
- § 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 systems
- § 24.2-626.1
- Acquisition and use of accessible voting devices
- § 24.2-627
- 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
- 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 ResultsRead all
- § 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 inside the polling place; penalties
- § 24.2-649.1
- Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place
- § 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 ballots
- § 24.2-652
- Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook; provisional ballots
- § 24.2-653
- Provisional voting; procedures in polling place
- § 24.2-653.01
- Provisional ballots; electoral boards to make determination as to validity
- § 24.2-653.1
- Voters who did not receive absentee ballots; provisional ballots
- § 24.2-653.2
- Ballots cast after normal close of polling hours due to court-ordered extension; provisional ballots
- § 24.2-653.3
- Voters assigned to split precinct; 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
- Determination of vote on voting systems
- § 24.2-658
- Machines with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets
- § 24.2-659
- 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
- § 24.2-667.1
- Reporting of results; absentee votes
- § 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
- Repealed
- § 24.2-671.2
- Risk-limiting audits
- § 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
- § 24.2-673.1
- (Expires July 1, 2031) Ranked choice voting
- § 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 ElectionsRead all
- § 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
