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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>65608</law_id><section_number>24.2-1002</section_number><catch_line>Interference with registration</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="24.2">Elections</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="10">Election Offenses Generally; Penalties</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any person who, by threats or force, interferes with or attempts to interfere with (i) any registrar in the discharge of his duty, (ii) any person applying to register or declining to apply to register, or (iii) any person going to or leaving a registration location as defined in Article 3 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Office of the general registrar" href="/24.2-411/">24.2-411</a> et seq.) of Chapter 4 of this title or a <span class="dictionary">polling place</span>, or (iv) any person going to or leaving any other location at which persons offer mail applications under Article 3.1 (&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Voter registration by mail" href="/24.2-416.1/">24.2-416.1</a> et seq.) of Chapter 4 of this title shall be guilty of a Class 1 <span class="dictionary">misdemeanor</span>.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 24-116; 1970, c. 462, &#xA7; 24.1-265; 1984, c. 480, &#xA7; 24.1-49.01; 1993, c. 641; 2003, c. 1015.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
