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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>69610</law_id><section_number>24.2-700</section_number><catch_line>Persons entitled to vote by absentee ballot</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>24.2-1012</reference><reference>24.2-428.1</reference><reference>24.2-458</reference><reference>24.2-603.1</reference><reference>24.2-646.1</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="7">Absentee Voting</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Any <span class="dictionary">registered voter</span> may vote by absentee ballot in accordance with the provisions of this chapter in any <span class="dictionary">election</span> in which he is qualified to vote.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 24-319; 1952, c. 488; 1970, c. 462, &#xA7; 24.1-227; 1971, Ex. Sess., c. 119; 1972, c. 620; 1974, c. 428; 1975, c. 515; 1976, c. 616; 1981, c. 425; 1983, c. 461; 1988, c. 6; 1989, c. 320; 1993, cc. 414, 641; 1995, c. 157; 1998, c. 254; 2000, c. 378; 2001, c. 631; 2002, cc. 785, 819; 2008, cc. 425, 880; 2009, cc. 405, 873; 2010, c. 244; 2012, c. 353; 2017, c. 631; 2019, cc. 668, 669; 2020, cc. 561, 1149, 1151, 1201.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
