§ 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§ 24.2-656 Repealed.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§ 24.2-660 Repealed.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.
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Terms Used In Virginia Code > Title 24.2 > Chapter 6 > Article 4 - Conduct of Election; Election Results.

  • Adjourn: A motion to adjourn a legislative chamber or a committee, if passed, ends that day's session.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Ballot scanner machine: means the electronic counting machine in which a voter inserts a marked ballot to be scanned and the results tabulated. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Board: means the State Board of Elections. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Candidate: means a person who seeks or campaigns for an office of the Commonwealth or one of its governmental units in a general, primary, or special election and who is qualified to have his name placed on the ballot for the office. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Chief judge: The judge who has primary responsibility for the administration of a court but also decides cases; chief judges are determined by seniority.
  • City: means an independent incorporated community which became a city as provided by law before noon on July 1, 1971, or which has within defined boundaries a population of 5,000 or more and which has become a city as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-208
  • Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
  • Department: means the state agency headed by the Commissioner of Elections. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Election: means a general, primary, or special election. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Election district: means the territory designated by proper authority or by law which is represented by an official elected by the people, including the Commonwealth, a congressional district, a General Assembly district, or a district for the election of an official of a county, city, town, or other governmental unit. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Freedom of Information Act: A federal law that mandates that all the records created and kept by federal agencies in the executive branch of government must be open for public inspection and copying. The only exceptions are those records that fall into one of nine exempted categories listed in the statute. Source: OCC
  • General election: means an election held in the Commonwealth on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November or on the first Tuesday in May for the purpose of filling offices regularly scheduled by law to be filled at those times. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • General registrar: means the person appointed by the electoral board of a county or city pursuant to § Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • in writing: include any representation of words, letters, symbols, numbers, or figures, whether (i) printed or inscribed on a tangible medium or (ii) stored in an electronic or other medium and retrievable in a perceivable form and whether an electronic signature authorized by Virginia Code 1-257
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • local electoral board: means a board appointed pursuant to § Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Locality: means a county, city, or town as the context may require. See Virginia Code 1-221
  • Machine-readable ballot: means a tangible ballot that is marked by a voter or by a system or device operated by a voter, is available for verification by the voter at the time the ballot is cast, and is then fed into and scanned by a separate counting machine capable of reading ballots and tabulating results. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Officer of election: means a person appointed by an electoral board pursuant to § Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Paper ballot: means a tangible ballot that is marked by a voter and then manually counted. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
  • Person with a disability: means a person with a disability as defined in § Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • political party: means an organization of citizens of the Commonwealth which, at either of the two preceding statewide general elections, received at least 10 percent of the total vote cast for any statewide office filled in that election. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Polling place: means the structure that contains the one place provided for each precinct at which the qualified voters who are residents of the precinct may vote. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Precinct: means the territory designated by the governing body of a county, city, or town to be served by one polling place. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • primary election: means an election held for the purpose of selecting a candidate to be the nominee of a political party for election to office. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Printed ballot: means a tangible ballot that is printed on paper and includes both machine-readable ballots and paper ballots. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Process: includes subpoenas, the summons and complaint in a civil action, and process in statutory actions. See Virginia Code 1-237
  • Qualified voter: means a person who is entitled to vote pursuant to the Constitution of Virginia and who is (i) 18 years of age on or before the day of the election or qualified pursuant to § Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • Referendum: means any election held pursuant to law to submit a question to the voters for approval or rejection. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Registered voter: means any person who is maintained on the Virginia voter registration system. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Special election: means any election that is held pursuant to law to fill a vacancy in office or to hold a referendum. See Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Town: means any existing town or an incorporated community within one or more counties which became a town before noon, July 1, 1971, as provided by law or which has within defined boundaries a population of 1,000 or more and which has become a town as provided by law. See Virginia Code 1-254
  • United States: includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-255
  • voter registration system: means the automated central record-keeping system for all voters registered within the Commonwealth that is maintained as provided in Article 2 (§ Virginia Code 24.2-101
  • Voting system: means the electronic voting and counting machines used at elections, including direct recording electronic machines (DRE), ballot scanner machines, and on-demand ballot printing systems and ballot marking devices used to manufacture or mark ballots to be cast by voters on electronic voting and counting machines. See Virginia Code 24.2-101