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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>63639</law_id><section_number>24.2-240</section_number><catch_line>Qualifications of electors; oath</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>24.2-242</reference><reference>24.2-244</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="24.2">Elections</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2.1">Presidential Electors</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="1">Nomination of Electors</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Each nominated elector selected pursuant to this article shall, at the time of his nomination and until the conclusion of the day electors cast their votes in the Electoral College, be a citizen of the United States and a legal resident of the Commonwealth, and shall subscribe to an <span class="dictionary">oath</span>, which shall be notarized, that he is, in <span class="dictionary">fact</span>, a citizen of the United States and a legal resident of the Commonwealth, and that he will, if elected, cast his ballot in the Electoral College for the <span class="dictionary">candidates</span> for President and Vice President of the United States as set forth in subsection A or B of &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="State Board to be furnished names of nominated electors selected by political parties; certain national conventions; vacancies" href="/24.2-241/">24.2-241</a> or pursuant to &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="How other groups may submit names of electors; oaths of electors" href="/24.2-242/">24.2-242</a>, as applicable, or as such <span class="dictionary">political party</span> or group of <span class="dictionary">qualified voters</span> may direct in the event of the death, withdrawal, or disqualification of a <span class="dictionary">candidate</span> of that party or group. The <span class="dictionary">State Board</span> shall also be furnished, if it requests, with satisfactory <span class="dictionary">evidence</span> that any individual undertaking to act as an elector under this chapter is, in <span class="dictionary">fact</span>, qualified and duly and properly authorized to do so.</p></section></text><history>2024, c. 801.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
