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Section
24.2-600
Cost of elections
Section
24.2-601
Town election process
Section
24.2-602
Exemption for ballots and election materials from certain purchasing and procurement requirements
Section
24.2-603
Hours polls to be open; closing the polls
Section
24.2-603.1
Postponement of certain elections; state of emergency
Section
24.2-604
Polling places; prohibited activities; prohibited area; penalties
Section
24.2-604.1
Signs for special entrances to polling places
Section
24.2-604.2
Polling places; prohibited area; emergency situations
Section
24.2-604.3
Election day page program; high school students
Section
24.2-604.4
Polling places; authorized representatives of party or candidate; prohibited activities
Section
24.2-604.5
Polling places; presence of additional persons authorized
Section
24.2-604.6
Polling places; simulated election activities
Section
24.2-605
Loudspeakers prohibited at polls; penalty
Section
24.2-606
Preservation of order at elections
Section
24.2-607
Prohibited conduct; intimidation of voters; disturbance of election; how prevented; penalties
Section
24.2-608
Officers to decide order of voting
Section
24.2-609
Voting booths
Section
24.2-610
Materials at polling places
Section
24.2-611
Form and signing of pollbooks; records of persons voting; electronic pollbooks
Section
24.2-612
List of offices and candidates filed with Department of Elections and checked for accuracy; when ballots printed; number required
Section
24.2-612.1
Ballots; death, withdrawal, or disqualification of candidates
Section
24.2-612.2
Notice of withdrawal of candidates
Section
24.2-613
Form of ballot
Section
24.2-614
Preparation and form of presidential election ballots
Section
24.2-615
Separate questions for proposed constitutional amendments, etc.; uniform ballots
Section
24.2-616
Duties of printer; statement; penalty
Section
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
Section
24.2-618
Delivery of ballots to electoral board or general registrar; checking and recording number
Section
24.2-619
Sealing ballots
Section
24.2-620
Dividing ballots into packages for each precinct; delivery of absentee ballots
Section
24.2-621
Delivery of packages to officers; opening packages
Section
24.2-622
Unofficial sample ballots
Section
24.2-623
Ballot containers to be supplied by governing bodies; construction and custody
Section
24.2-624
Opening and closing ballot containers; opening polls
Section
24.2-625
Application of Title 24.2 and general law
Section
24.2-625.1
Voting equipment security
Section
24.2-625.2
Wireless communications at polling places
Section
24.2-626
Governing bodies shall acquire electronic voting systems
Section
24.2-626.1
Acquisition and use of accessible voting devices
Section
24.2-627
Electronic voting systems; number required
Section
24.2-628
Repealed
Section
24.2-629
State Board approval process of electronic voting systems
Section
24.2-630
Experimental use of approved systems
Section
24.2-631
Experimental use of voting systems and ballots prior to approval of the system
Section
24.2-632
Voting equipment custodians
Section
24.2-633
Notice of final testing of voting system; sealing equipment
Section
24.2-634
Locking and securing after preparation
Section
24.2-635
Demonstration of equipment
Section
24.2-636
Instruction as to use of equipment
Section
24.2-637
Furniture and equipment to be at polling places
Section
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.
Section
24.2-639
Duties of officers of election
Section
24.2-640
Repealed
Section
24.2-641
Sample ballot
Section
24.2-642
Inoperative equipment
Section
24.2-643
(Effective until January 1, 2022) Qualified voter permitted to vote; procedures at polling place; voter identification
Section
24.2-643
(Effective January 1, 2022) Qualified voter permitted to vote; procedures at polling place; voter identification
Section
24.2-644
Voting by paper ballot; voting for presidential electors; write-in votes
Section
24.2-645
Defaced printed ballots
Section
24.2-646
Voter folds paper ballot and hands same to officer who deposits it unopened in ballot container
Section
24.2-646.1
Permitted use of paper ballots
Section
24.2-647
Voting systems; demonstration on election day
Section
24.2-648
Write-in votes on voting equipment
Section
24.2-649
Assistance for certain voters inside the polling place; penalties
Section
24.2-649.1
Assistance for certain voters outside of the polling place
Section
24.2-650
Officers to sign only official papers, etc.
Section
24.2-651
Voter who is challenged; how challenge tried
Section
24.2-651.1
Voter who is shown as having already voted; provisional ballots
Section
24.2-652
Voter whose name erroneously omitted from pollbook; provisional ballots
Section
24.2-653
Provisional voting; procedures in polling place
Section
24.2-653.01
Provisional ballots; electoral boards to make determination as to validity
Section
24.2-653.1
Voters who did not receive absentee ballots; provisional ballots
Section
24.2-653.2
Ballots cast after normal close of polling hours due to court-ordered extension; provisional ballots
Section
24.2-653.3
Voters assigned to split precinct; provisional ballots
Section
24.2-654
Officers to lock and seal voting equipment and ascertain vote after polls closed; statement of results
Section
24.2-655
Representatives of political parties and candidates to be present on request
Section
24.2-656
Repealed
Section
24.2-657
Determination of vote on voting systems
Section
24.2-658
Machines with printed return sheets; disposition of sheets
Section
24.2-659
Locking voting systems after election and delivering keys to clerk; printed returns as evidence
Section
24.2-660
Repealed
Section
24.2-661
Detection and setting aside of double ballots
Section
24.2-662
Procedure when paper ballots exceed names on pollbooks
Section
24.2-663
When ballot void
Section
24.2-664
Reduction in number of ballots
Section
24.2-665
How paper ballots counted
Section
24.2-666
Procedures to account for paper ballots
Section
24.2-667
Completion of statement of results
Section
24.2-667.1
Reporting of results; absentee votes
Section
24.2-668
Pollbooks, statements of results, and ballots to be sealed and delivered to clerk or general registrar
Section
24.2-669
Clerk to keep ballots; inspection; destruction
Section
24.2-670
Clerk to send for books and ballots if not delivered by officers
Section
24.2-671
Electoral board to meet and ascertain results; conclusiveness of results
Section
24.2-671.1
Audits of ballot scanner machines
Section
24.2-672
Electoral board to correct irregularities in returns of officers of election
Section
24.2-673
Candidates having highest number of votes to receive certificate of election
Section
24.2-673.1
(Expires July 1, 2031) Ranked choice voting
Section
24.2-674
Determination by lot in case of tie
Section
24.2-675
Abstracts of votes to be made by secretary and forwarded to State Board and to clerks
Section
24.2-676
Secretary to make out and deliver certificate of election
Section
24.2-677
State Board to open and record returns; application of Freedom of Information Act
Section
24.2-678
Law-enforcement officer to be sent for abstracts not forwarded
Section
24.2-679
State Board to meet and make statement as to number of votes
Section
24.2-680
Certificates of election
Section
24.2-681
How special elections superintended and determined
Section
24.2-682
Times for special elections
Section
24.2-683
Writ for special election to fill a vacancy
Section
24.2-684
How referendum elections called and held, and the results ascertained and certified
Section
24.2-684.1
Requirements for voter petitions to call for referendum elections
Section
24.2-685
Special elections; request for abolition of constitutional offices
Section
24.2-686
Special elections; petition and referendum requirements; abolition of constitutional office by change in form of government
Section
24.2-687
Authorization for distribution of information on referendum elections