Article 4 Conduct of Election; Election Results
This article is comprised of the following sections:
- §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- §24.2-656 Repealed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- §24.2-660 Repealed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 and provisional 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